“I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days. Then I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.