2 Chronicles 13:9

New International Version

But didn’t you drive out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:33

Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places.

2 Kings 19:18

They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

1 Chronicles 29:5

for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the Lord today?”

2 Chronicles 13:10

“As for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests who serve the Lord are sons of Aaron, and the Levites assist them.

2 Chronicles 29:31

Then Hezekiah said, “You have now dedicated yourselves to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the Lord.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.

Exodus 29:1

“This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect.

Exodus 29:29

“Aaron’s sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.

Exodus 29:35

“Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.

Exodus 32:29

Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the Lord today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.

Jeremiah 5:7

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

Hosea 8:6

They are from Israel! This calf—a metalworker has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.

Leviticus 16:32

The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments

Leviticus 8:2

“Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast,

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia. He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.