Jeroboam also made shrines on the high places and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.
2 Kings 17:32 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They feared the Lord, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they feared the Lord, yet appointed from among themselves, whether high or low, priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. American Standard Version (1901) So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. Common English Bible They also worshipped the LORD, but they appointed priests for the shrines from their whole population. These priests worked in the houses at the shrines. Catholic Public Domain Version But nevertheless, they worshipped the Lord. Then they made for themselves, from the least of the people, priests of the high places. And they placed them in the shrines of the high places. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places. |
Jeroboam also made shrines on the high places and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.
He offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own. He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
After he had buried him, he said to his sons, ‘When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,
Even after this, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again made priests for the high places from the ranks of the people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.
When they first lived there, they did not fear the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.
They feared the Lord, but they also worshipped their own gods according to the practice of the nations from which they had been deported.
They feared the Lord but also served their idols. Still today, their children and grandchildren continue doing as their ancestors did.
Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord. Josiah did the same things to them that he had done at Bethel.
they approached Zerubbabel and the family heads and said to them, ‘Let us build with you, for we also worship your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time King Esar-haddon of Assyria brought us here.’
those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the stars in the sky; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom; ,