2 Chronicles 11:14

Jeroboam Appoints False Priests

14 For athe Levites left their pasture lands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for bJeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 11:14 — The New International Version (NIV)

14 The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord

2 Chronicles 11:14 — English Standard Version (ESV)

14 For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the Lord,

2 Chronicles 11:14 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:

2 Chronicles 11:14 — New Living Translation (NLT)

14 The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and moved to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons would not allow them to serve the Lord as priests.

2 Chronicles 11:14 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

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

2 Chronicles 11:14 — New Century Version (NCV)

14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 11:14 — American Standard Version (ASV)

14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office unto Jehovah;

2 Chronicles 11:14 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

14 for the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from exercising the priesthood to Jehovah;

2 Chronicles 11:14 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

14 The priests abandoned their land and property and went to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his descendants rejected them as the Lord’s priests.

2 Chronicles 11:14 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

14 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.

2 Chronicles 11:14 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

14 The Levites had left their common lands and their holdings and had come to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had prevented them from serving as priests of the Lord,

2 Chronicles 11:14 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

14 For the Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 11:14 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

14 The Levites even left their grasslands and other property behind. They came to Judah and Jerusalem. That’s because Jeroboam and his sons had refused to accept them as priests of the Lord.

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