2 Kings 23:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ The priests of the high places, however, did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem but ate unleavened bread among their kindred.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ However, the priests of the high places were not allowed to sacrifice upon the Lord's altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.

Common English Bible

⁹ Although the priests of these shrines didn’t go up on the LORD’s altar in Jerusalem, they did eat unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Yet truly, the priests of the high places did not ascend to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem. For they would only eat from the unleavened bread in the midst of their brothers.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ However the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem: but only ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

2 Kings 23:9 Cross References

2 Kings 23:10

He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, so that no one would make a son or a daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech.

1 Samuel 2:36

Everyone who is left in your family shall come and prostrate himself before him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, ‘Please put me in one of the priest’s places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.’ ”