2 Chronicles 11:15

Jeroboam Forsakes the Priests and Levites

14For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.15And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

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Berean Standard Bible
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
American Standard Version (1901)
and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.
Bible in Basic English
And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.
Douay-Rheims 1899
And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
Free Bible Version
Jeroboam chose his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made.
Geneva Bible 1599
And he ordeyned him Priests for the hie places, and for the deuils and for the calues which he had made.
King James (Authorized) Version
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
Translation for Translators
Instead, Jeroboam appointed the priests that he wanted to work at the altars he commanded to be built on the hilltops, to offer sacrifices to the idols that he commanded to be made that resembled goats and calves.
Unlocked Literal Bible
Jeroboam appointed for himself priests for the high places and the goat and calf idols he had made.
Noah Webster Bible
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
World English Bible
He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goat and calf idols which he had made.
Young's Literal Translation
and he establisheth to him priests for high places, and for goats, and for calves, that he made —