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2 Chronicles 11:13 Explained in Context
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Verse 13. 13And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
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Quick Meaning
Brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam.
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 11:13–11:17
Brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam. Read 2 Chronicles 11:13 within 11:13–11:17. The complete unit records: Priests and Levites leave their lands after Jeroboam excludes them, and worshipers from all tribes follow them to Jerusalem, strengthening Rehoboam for three years.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The Chronicler turns political division into a story of cultic migration and all-Israel continuity around Jerusalem. In this exact position, the line beginning “And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him…” brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam.
Follow the Context
- Priests and Levites leave their lands after Jeroboam excludes them, and worshipers from all tribes follow them to Jerusalem, strengthening Rehoboam for three years.
- The Chronicler turns political division into a story of cultic migration and all-Israel continuity around Jerusalem.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him…”
In plain language: Brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam.
The line beginning “And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him…” brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The migration does not make northern Israelites apostates by ethnicity, justify antisemitism, or permit coercing people to abandon home and livelihood.
What Remains True
Brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Faithful memory tells the truth about worship and power together: it preserves covenant hope while naming labor, victims, institutional limits, human agency, and uncertainty.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam, keep it inside 11:13–11:17, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 11:13 brings priests and Levites from all Israel to Rehoboam. Use 11:13–11:17, paraphrase “And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Chronicles 11:13–11:17 — Priests and Levites migrate from the northSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
2 Chronicles 11:13 remains within this thought-unit limit: The account reflects the Chronicler's temple-centered perspective; its scale, chronology, and relationship to northern worship require historical caution.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 11:13–11:17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 11:13–11:17
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NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 11:13–11:17, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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