Bible Verses About Priests: Made of the lowest of the people by Jeroboam and others

When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

So they feared the LORD, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.