For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to YHWH.
They went around in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
However, if the land y’all possess is unclean, then y’all are to cross over to the land of the land YHWH possesses where the tabernacle of YHWH’s dwells and take possession among us. But y’all must not rebel against YHWH or rebel against us by building an altar other than YHWH our God’s altar.
A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of YHWH at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to YHWH, the God of Israel.
Although y’all say, ‘This is a message from YHWH,’ YHWH says: ‘Because y’all say, “This is a message from YHWH,” when I told telling y’all not to say, “This is a message from YHWH,”