2 Chronicles 13:9

Abijah And Civil War

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. ⁹ Didn’t you banish the priests of Yahweh, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods. ¹⁰ “But as for us, Yahweh is our God. We have not abandoned Him; the priests ministering to the Lord are descendants of Aaron, and the Levites serve at their tasks.

Peoples of the Land

Descendants Of Levi

O God

Aaron

Jehovah

Levi

Levites

No

Non

2 Chronicles 11:14-15

for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of Yahweh.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.

Exodus 29:35

“This is what you are to do for Aaron and his sons based on all I have commanded you. Take seven days to ordain them.

Exodus 29:1

“This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve Me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams,

Exodus 32:29

Afterward Moses said, “Today you have been dedicated to the Lord, since each man went against his son and his brother. Therefore you have brought a blessing on yourselves today.”

Leviticus 8:2

“Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

Leviticus 16:32

The priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as high priest in place of his father will make atonement. He will put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.

1 Kings 12:31-33

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and set up priests from every class of people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 13:33

After all this Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again set up priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.

2 Kings 19:18

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

1 Chronicles 29:5

the gold for the gold work and the silver for the silver, for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now who will volunteer to consecrate himself to the Lord today?”

Jeremiah 5:7

Why should I forgive you?
Your children have abandoned Me
and sworn by those who are not gods.
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;
they gashed themselves at the prostitute’s house.

Hosea 8:6

For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

Acts 19:26

You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!

Galatians 4:8

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.