2 Chronicles 11:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² He also supplied all the cities with large shields and spears of great strength. Thus he retained control of Judah and Benjamin.

¹³ Jeroboam’s Priests. The priests and the Levites throughout Israel placed themselves at Rehoboam’s disposal. ¹⁴ Actually the Levites had abandoned their pasture lands and their holdings and had come to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected their services as priests of the Lord.