2 Chronicles 11:13

11 And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine.

12 Also in every city he put shields and spears, and made them very strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

Priests and Levites Move to Judah

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

14 For the Levites left ^atheir common-lands and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for ^bJeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the Lord.

15 ^aThen he appointed for himself priests for the¹ high places, for ^bthe demons, and ^cthe calf idols which he had made.

16 ^aAnd¹ after the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel, ^bcame to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers.

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There are two reasons, at least, that Jeroboam did what he did. One is because he had no choice. It could have been that the Levites may have stood up to him and refused to be priests teaching and participating in error. So they just up and left. If Jeroboam wanted to have a religion, he had to have priests. He could not use the Levites because they were not there. They had refused, so he decided he would put anybody in who wanted to be a priest.

The second possibility is that he may have summarily kicked them out because they represented too much of a threat. What he did, though, or what occurred, ensured that there would be no one who knew God's way well enough to be a threat.

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