27 If this people continues going up to render sacrifices in the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem,+ the heart of this people will also be bound to return to their lord,* Re·ho·boʹam the king of Judah; and they will certainly kill me+ and return to Re·ho·boʹam the king of Judah.”

14 For the Levites left their pasture grounds+ and their possession+ and then came to Judah and Jerusalem,+ because Jer·o·boʹam+ and his sons had discharged+ them from acting as priests to Jehovah.