2 Chronicles 11:13

The Priests and Levites Come to Jerusalem

13 Now the priests and the Levites who [were] throughout all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories.

2 Chronicles 11:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 11:13

And the priests and the Levites, that were in all Israel
In the ten tribes, in the cities assigned to them therein:

resorted to him out of all their coasts;
as to their rightful sovereign, and chiefly for the sake of the service of the sanctuary at Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 11:13 In-Context

11 And he strengthened the fortifications and put commanders in them, [along with] stores of food, olive oil, and wine.

12 And in all the cities [he put] shields and spears, and he greatly strengthened them. So he had Judah and Benjamin.

13 Now the priests and the Levites who [were] throughout all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories.

14 For the Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to Yahweh.

15 And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made.

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, Rehoboam