The priests and the Levites throughout Israel took their stand with him, coming from every district where they lived;
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11He reinforced the strongholds, put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil and wine, 12and shields and spears in every single town. He made them exceedingly strong. So Judah and Benjamin were his. 13The priests and the Levites throughout Israel took their stand with him, coming from every district where they lived; 14for the Levites left their pasture lands and their holdings and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had barred them from serving as priests to Yahweh. 15He had appointed his own priests for the high places, for the goat-demons and for the calves he had made.
