31And he maketh the house of high places, and maketh priests of the extremities of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi;


In Context

28 And the king taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, 'Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

29 And he setteth the one in Beth-El, and the other he hath put in Dan,

30 and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one — unto Dan.

31 And he maketh the house of high places, and maketh priests of the extremities of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi;

32 and Jeroboam maketh a festival in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that is in Judah, and he offereth on the altar — so did he in Beth-El — to sacrifice to the calves which he made, and he hath appointed in Beth-El the priests of the high places that he made.

33 And he offereth up on the altar that he made in Beth-El, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he devised of his own heart, and he maketh a festival to the sons of Israel, and offereth on the altar — to make perfume.

1 Kings 12:31 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:31Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:31And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:31And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:31And he made a house of high places, and made priests from all classes of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:31And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:31And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:31He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.