Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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:
Their possession
Jeroboam
General references
Bible References
Suburbs
Numbers 35:2
“Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.
Joshua 21:20
The allotted cities to the remaining clans of Kohath’s descendants, who were Levites, came from the tribe of Ephraim.
1 Chronicles 6:66
Some of the families of the Kohathites were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
Their possession
Leviticus 27:30
“Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.
Numbers 18:21
“Look, I have given the Levites every tenth in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the work of the tent of meeting.
Jeroboam
2 Chronicles 13:9
Didn’t you banish the priests of Yahweh, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.
1 Kings 12:28
So the king sought advice.
Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God
1 Kings 13:33
After all this Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again set up priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.
General references
Numbers 35:3
The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.