Study it in the app“For the Levites abandoned their pasturelands and their possession and went to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to YHWH.”
Forכִּיthe Levitesהַלְוִיִּםabandonedעָזְבוּtheir pasturelandsמִגְרְשֵׁיהֶםand their possessionוַאֲחֻזָּתָםand wentוַיֵּלְכוּto Judahלִיהוּדָהand to Jerusalem,וְלִירוּשָׁלִָםforכִּיJeroboamיָרָבְעָםand his sonsוּבָנָיוhad rejected themהִזְנִיחָםfrom serving as priestsמִכַּהֵןto YHWH.לַיהוָה
Levite
Levite: of the tribe of Levi.
Where else “leviyim” appearsforsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “azvu” appearspasturelands
Open land around a city, used as pasture for the livestock.
Where else “migrshe” appearspossession
Possession: land that someone holds as his own.
Where else “achuzata” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelchu” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yhuda” appearsJerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “yrushalaim” appearsJeroboam
Jeroboam: the name of two kings of Israel: Jeroboam son of Nebat, first king of the ten northern tribes (1 Kings 11–14), and Jeroboam son of Joash, much later (2 Kings 14:23-29).
Where else “yaravam” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vanay” appearsreject
To cast someone away, no longer wanting him near.
Where else “hizniach” appearsserve as priest
Serve as a priest.
Where else “kahen” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yhva” appearsJerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
13The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all their territory.
14 · This verse (above)
15He appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves that he had made.
