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For the Levites left their pasture lands and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office to the LORD.
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Verse 14. Off. This was done at different times; so that almost all the Levites took refuge in the dominions of Juda. Yet some prevaricated. Ezechiel (44:12) only exempts the family of Sadoc. Calmet.—The rest set before us a noble example to endure temporal loss, rather than to neglect the practice of religion, or to conform to a false one. Worthington.
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