(A)Have ye not driven away the Priests of the Lord the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and have made you Priests like the people of other countries? whosoever cometh to [a]consecrate with a [b]young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a Priest of them that are no gods.

10 But we belong unto the Lord our God, and have not forsaken him, and the Priests the sons of Aaron minister unto the Lord, and the Levites in their office.

11 And they burn unto the Lord every [c]morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense, and the bread is set in order upon the pure table, and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the watch of the Lord our God: but ye have forsaken him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 13:9 Hebrew, fill his hand.
  2. 2 Chronicles 13:9 He showeth the nature of idolaters which take no trial of the vocation, life and doctrine of their ministers, but think the most vilest and greatest beasts sufficient to serve their turn.
  3. 2 Chronicles 13:11 As it was appointed in the Law, Exod. 29:39.

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