2 Kings 17:32

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But they also worshiped the Lord. They chose priests for the high places from among the people. These priests made sacrifices for the people in the temples at those places of worship.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam also built temples at the high places and chose priests from among the different tribes of Israel. (He did not choose priests only from the tribe of Levi.)

2 Kings 17:29

But all those people made gods of their own. They put them in the temples at the high places that the people of Samaria had made. They did this wherever they lived.

Zephaniah 1:5

And those who go up on their roofs to worship the stars will be forgotten. They worship me, the Lord, but they also use the name of the false god Milcom to make promises.

2 Kings 23:19

Josiah also destroyed all the temples at the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had built those temples, which had made the Lord very angry. Josiah destroyed them, just as he had destroyed the place of worship at Bethel.

1 Kings 13:33

King Jeroboam did not change. He continued doing evil. He continued to choose people from different tribes to serve as priests at the high places. Whoever wanted to be a priest was allowed to be one.

1 Kings 13:31

So the old prophet buried the body. Then he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in this same grave. Put my bones next to his.

2 Kings 17:25

When these people began to live in Samaria, they did not honor the Lord, so the Lord sent lions to attack them. The lions killed some of them.

2 Kings 17:33

They respected the Lord but also served their own gods, just as they did in their own countries.

1 Kings 12:33

So King Jeroboam chose his own time for a festival for the Israelites, the 15th day of the eighth month. And during that time he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the altar he had built at Bethel.

2 Kings 17:41

So now those other nations respected the Lord, but they also served their own idols. Their children and grandchildren did the same thing their ancestors did. They still do these things to this day.