1 Kings 12:31

Modern English Version

He also made houses on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:24

As he was going, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown in the road, and both the donkey and lion stood by it.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built high places and images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:28

Then one of the priests whom they had exiled from Samaria came and lived in Bethel. He taught them how they should fear the Lord.

2 Kings 17:29

But each nation was making its own gods, and they put them in the houses of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, each nation in the cities where they were living.

2 Kings 17:32

They feared the Lord and made from amongst themselves priests of the high places, who were working for them in the houses of the high places.

2 Chronicles 13:9

Have you all not driven out the priests of the Lord, even the Levites and sons of Aaron, and made for yourselves priests from the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be dedicated and has in his hand a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest to what is not a god.

Ezekiel 16:25

You have built yourself a high place at the head of every street, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have spread your legs to every passerby to multiply your harlotries.

Hosea 12:11

In Gilead there is iniquity; surely they will come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, so their altars will be like stone heaps in the furrows of the fields.

Amos 7:10

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you at the very center of the house of Israel. The country cannot endure all his words.

Numbers 3:10

You will appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will attend to their priesthood, and the foreigner that approaches will be put to death.

Deuteronomy 24:15

You must give him his wages on that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor, and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be a sin to you.