Thematic Bible: Priests supported by the state

Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

Verse Concepts

False GodsSchool Of ProphetsTablesAssembling IsraelFour To Five Hundred

Four And Five HundredFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other GodsServing Asherahjezebel

The priests and Levites from all their regions throughout Israel took their stand with Rehoboam, 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 the Lord. Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the [gold] calves he had made.