SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:14
Porque los levitas dejaban sus ejidos y sus posesiones, y se venían a Judá y a Jerusalén; pues Jeroboam y sus hijos los echaban del ministerio del SEÑOR.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 11:14
Verse 14. The Levites left their suburbs] They and the priests were expelled from their offices by Jeroboam, lest they should turn the hearts of the people to the true God, and then they would revolt to Judah, 1 Kings xii. 26; and therefore he established a new worship, and made new gods.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession , etc.] The cities and the fields adjacent to them, which were given them in the several tribes, and were in all forty eight; (see Joshua 21:1-41) and came to Judah and Jerusalem; to the cities of Judah, which belonged to the Levites; and to Jerusalem, where they exercised their functions: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from exercising the priest’s office unto the Lord ; neither suffering them to go to Jerusalem in their courses, as they used to do by turns, nor to perform their office in their own dwellings, according to the law of God, in teaching and instructing the people.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-23 - When the priests and Levites came to Jerusalem, the devout, piou Israelites followed them. Such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel, left the inheritance of their fathers, and went to Jerusalem, that they might have free access to the altar of God, and be out of the temptation to worship the calves. That is best for us, whic is best for our souls; in all our choices, religious advantages must be sought before all outward conveniences. Where God's faithful priest are, his faithful people should be. And when it has been proved that we are willing to renounce our worldly interests, so far as we are calle to do so for the sake of Christ and his gospel, we have good evidenc that we are truly his disciples. And it is the interest of a nation to protect religion and religious people __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 עזבו 5800 הלוים 3881 את 853 מגרשׁיהם 4054 ואחזתם 272 וילכו 1980 ליהודה 3063 ולירושׁלם 3389 כי 3588 הזניחם 2186 ירבעם 3379 ובניו 1121 מכהן 3547 ליהוה׃ 3068
