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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 13:33 - Strong Concordance

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1Ki 13:33 Strong Concordance After [0310] this thing [01697] Jeroboam [03379] returned [07725] not from his evil [07451] way [01870], but made [06213] again [07725] of the lowest [07098] of the people [05971] priests [03548] of the high places [01116]: whosoever would [02655], he consecrated [04390] [03027] him, and he became one of the priests [03548] of the high places [01116].
  King James After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Whosoever would, he consecrated him - i. e., he exercised no discretion, but allowed anyone to become a priest, without regard to birth, character, or social position. We may suspect from this that the office was not greatly sought, since no civil governor who cared to set up a priesthood would wish to degrade it in public estimation. Jeroboam did impose one limitation, which would have excluded the very poorest class. The candidate for consecration was obliged to make an offering consisting of one young bullock and seven rams Ch2 13:9.
 
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9 Have ye not cast out [05080] the priests [03548] of the LORD [03068], the sons [01121] of Aaron [0175], and the Levites [03881], and have made [06213] you priests [03548] after the manner of the nations [05971] of other lands [0776]? so that whosoever cometh [0935] to consecrate [04390] [03027] himself with a young [01121] [01241] bullock [06499] and seven [07651] rams [0352], the same may be a priest [03548] of them that are no [03808] gods [0430].
23 And when he went in [0935] to his wife [0802], she conceived [02029], and bare [03205] a son [01121], and he called [07121] his name [08034] Beriah [01283], because it went evil [07451] with his house [01004].
33 And these are the singers [07891], chief [07218] of the fathers [01] of the Levites [03881], who remaining in the chambers [03957] were free [06362] [06359]: for they were employed in that work [04399] day [03119] and night [03915].
34 And this thing [01697] became sin [02403] unto the house [01004] of Jeroboam [03379], even to cut it off [03582], and to destroy [08045] it from off the face [06440] of the earth [0127].
25 And he took [03947] the fat [02459], and the rump [0451], and all the fat [02459] that was upon the inwards [07130], and the caul [03508] above the liver [03516], and the two [08147] kidneys [03629], and their fat [02459], and the right [03225] shoulder [07785]:
37 This is the law [08451] of the burnt offering [05930], of the meat offering [04503], and of the sin offering [02403], and of the trespass offering [0817], and of the consecrations [04394], and of the sacrifice [02077] of the peace offerings [08002];
31 And he made [06213] an house [01004] of high places [01116], and made [06213] priests [03548] of the lowest [07098] of the people [05971], which were not of the sons [01121] of Levi [03878].