2 Chronicles 11:14

Contextual Overview

¹³The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. ¹³ The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. ¹³Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories. ¹³ Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him from all their districts. ¹³ And the priestes and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coastes. ¹³ And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their districts; ¹³ 1 Kings 14:21-24">[xr] And from all their territories the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him. ¹³ And the priests and the Levites in all Israel stationed themselves by him, out of all their territory. ¹³ The priests and the Levites from all over Israel agreed with Rehoboam and joined him. ¹³ The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

suburbs: Numbers 35:2-5, Joshua 21:20-42, 1 Chronicles 6:66-81

their possession: Leviticus 27:30-34, Numbers 18:21-28

Jeroboam: 2 Chronicles 13:9, 1 Kings 12:28-33, 1 Kings 13:33

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:1 - among Numbers 35:3 - General Deuteronomy 12:19 - Take 1 Kings 12:31 - priests 2 Kings 4:42 - bread Jeremiah 23:38 - ye say Luke 1:8 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession,.... The cities and the fields adjacent to them, which were given them in the several tribes, and were in all forty eight; see Joshua 21:1 and came to Judah and Jerusalem; to the cities of Judah, which belonged to the Levites; and to Jerusalem, where they exercised their functions:

for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from exercising the priest's office unto the Lord; neither suffering them to go to Jerusalem in their courses, as they used to do by turns, nor to perform their office in their own dwellings, according to the law of God, in teaching and instructing the people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeroboam probably confiscated the Levitical lands for the benefit of this new priesthood. Under these circumstances the priests and Levites emigrated in large numbers to the southern kingdom; an act which was followed by a general emigration of the more pious Israelites 2 Chronicles 11:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 11:14. The Levites left their suburbs — They and the priests were expelled from their offices by Jeroboam, lest they should turn the hearts of the people to the true God, and then they would revolt to Judah, 1 Kings 12:26; and therefore he established a new worship, and made new gods.