his sons had # 11_1KI_13_12 # And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. 
his sons had # 14_2CH_11_14 # For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD: