2 Chronicles 11:12-14

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¹² And he put large shields and spears in every city and strengthened them greatly. So he held Judah and Benjamin.

¹³ Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories.

Jeroboam Sets Up His Own Priests

¹⁴ For ^(A)the Levites left their pasture lands and their possession of land and went to Judah and Jerusalem, for ^(B)Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from ministering as priests to Yahweh—