They made a circuit throughout Judah. They gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

他们走遍犹大，从犹大各城里招聚利未人和以色列的众族长到耶路撒冷来。

他们走遍犹大，从犹大各城召集利未人和以色列的众族长到耶路撒冷来。

他们走遍犹大，从犹大各城召集利未人和以色列的众族长到耶路撒冷来。

他们走遍犹大各城，把利未人和以色列的各族长召集到耶路撒冷。

他们就走遍犹大，从犹大各城召集利未人和以色列各家族的首领；他们就来到耶路撒冷。

他們走遍猶大，從猶大各城裏招聚利未人和以色列的眾族長到耶路撒冷來。

他們走遍猶大，從猶大各城召集利未人和以色列的眾族長到耶路撒冷來。

他們走遍猶大，從猶大各城召集利未人和以色列的眾族長到耶路撒冷來。

他們走遍猶大各城，把利未人和以色列的各族長召集到耶路撒冷。

他們就走遍猶大，從猶大各城召集利未人和以色列各家族的首領；他們就來到耶路撒冷。

他們環遊了猶大，從猶大各城招集了利未人和以色列父系家屬的族長；他們就來到耶路撒冷。

眾乃遍行猶大、自猶大諸邑、集利未人、及以色列族長、咸至耶路撒冷、

普告猶大諸邑、集利未人、與以色列族中最著者、至耶路撒冷、

乃遍行猶大、自猶大諸邑集利未人、及以色列諸族長、咸至耶路撒冷、

They went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites and the heads of Israelite families from all the towns. When they came to Jerusalem,

They went all through Judah. They gathered together the Levites and the leaders of Israelite families from all the towns. They came to Jerusalem.

And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

These men traveled secretly throughout Judah and summoned the Levites and clan leaders in all the towns to come to Jerusalem.

They made a circuit throughout Judah. They gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the family heads of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

And they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

And they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the chief fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

They traveled throughout Judah and assembled the Levites from all the cities of Judah, as well as the Israelite family leaders. They came to Jerusalem,

They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

The priests and Levites from all their regions throughout Israel took their stand with Rehoboam,for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of Yahweh.Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.Those from every tribe of Israel who had determined in their hearts to seek Yahweh their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

“ Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as harmless as doves.

Good will come to a man who lends generously and conducts his business fairly.

He had brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk— not as unwise people but as wise—

He said to them,“ You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

The secretary, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the officers, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites. One ancestral house was taken for Eleazar, and then one for Ithamar.