11:13 The priests and Levites who lived throughout Israel supported him, no matter where they resided. 2 11:14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests. 11:15 Jeroboam 3 appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers 4 and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made. 5 11:16 Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the Lord God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem 6 to sacrifice to the Lord God of their ancestors. 7 11:17 They supported 8 the kingdom of Judah and were loyal to 9 Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years; they followed the edicts of 10 David and Solomon for three years.
15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 11 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 12 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
30:15 They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the Lord’s temple. 30:16 They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. 16 30:17 Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered 17 the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the Lord. 18 30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. 19 For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive 20
1 tn Heb “he strengthened them greatly, very much.”
2 tn Heb “and the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel supported him from all their territory.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “for the high places.”
5 tn Heb “and for the goats and for the calves he had made.”
6 tn Heb “and after them from all the tribes of Israel, the ones giving their heart[s] to seek the
7 tn Heb “fathers.”
8 tn Or “strengthened.”
9 tn Or “strengthened.”
10 tn Heb “they walked in the way of.”
11 tn Or “resident aliens.”
12 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”
13 tn Heb “also in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and the officials by the word of the
14 tn The Hebrew text adds here, “a very large assembly.” This has not been translated to avoid redundancy with the expression “a huge crowd” at the beginning of the verse.
15 tn Heb “and they arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed and threw into the Kidron Valley.”
16 tn Heb “from the hand of the Levites.”
17 tn Heb “were over the slaughter of.”
18 tn Heb “of everyone not pure to consecrate to the
19 tn Heb “without what is written.”
20 tn Heb “make atonement for.”