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Jeroboam appoints non-Levite priests for high-place shrines.
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1 Kings 12:31

New high places and priests

The Kingdom Divides · 1 Kings 12

Story guide: Jeroboam installs priests drawn from the general population at his new shrines; the passage gives no details of the buildings or the people shown.

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31He built shrines at the high places and appointed priests from the people at large. These priests were not Levites.

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