2 CHRONICLES 11:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“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:”
For Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, and for the satyrs, and for the calves that he had made — Jeroboam established alternative priesthood (וְהוּא הֵקִים־לוֹ כֹּהֲנִים לַבָּמוֹת וְלַשְׂעִירִים וְלַעֲגָלִים אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה). The Chronicler explicitly condemns his cultic innovations: high places (bamot—unauthorized altars), 'satyrs' (wild deities, שְׂעִירִים), and calf-idols (עֲגָלִים). The theological judgment is severe: Jeroboam's schism involved cultic heterodoxy, not merely political division.
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