2 Chronicles 13:7-9
Christian Standard Bible
7 Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young, inexperienced, and unable to assert himself against them.
8 “And now you are saying you can assert yourselves against the Lord’s kingdom, which is in the hand of one of David’s sons. You are a vast number and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.[a](A) 9 Didn’t you banish the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do?(B) Whoever comes to ordain himself(C) with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest(D) of what are not gods.(E)
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- 13:8 Or God; 1Kg 12:28
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