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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 13:33 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
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]. |
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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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
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. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
But this did not lead Jeroboam to conversion. He turned not from his evil way, but continued to make high priests from the mass of the people. ויּעשׂ ויּשׁב, "he returned and made," i.e., he made again or continued to make. For the fact itself compare Kg1 12:31. "Whoever had pleasure (החפץ, cf., Ges. 109), he filled his hand, that he might become a priest of the high places." מלּא את־ידו, to fill the hand, is the technical expression for investing with the priesthood, according to the rite prescribed for the consecration of the priests, namely, to place sacrificial gifts in the hands of the persons to be consecrated (see at Lev 7:37 and Lev 8:25.). The plural בּמות כּהני is used with indefinite generality: that he might be ranked among the priests of high places.
Kg1 13:34
"And it became in (with) this thing the sin of the house of Jeroboam, and the destroying and cutting off from the earth;" that is to say, this obstinate persistence in ungodly conduct was the guilt which had as its natural consequence the destroying of his house from the face of the earth. הזּה בּדּבר is not a mistake for הזּה הדּבר, but בּ is used, as in Ch1 9:33; Ch1 7:23, to express the idea of being and persisting in a thing (for this use of בּ compare Ewald, 295, f.). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
After this - That is, after all these things: the singular number put for the plural; after so many, and evident, and successive miracles. Made again - He abated not so much as a circumstance in his idolatrous worship. Whosoever - Without any respect to tribe or family, or integrity of body, or mind, or life; all which were to be regarded in the priesthood. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Jeroboam returned not from his evil way - There is something exceedingly obstinate and perverse, as well as blinding and infatuating, in idolatry. The prediction lately delivered at Beth-el, and the miracles wrought in confirmation of it, were surely sufficient to have affected and alarmed any heart, not wholly and incorrigibly hardened; and yet they had no effect on Jeroboam!
Made - the lowest of the people priests - So hardy was this bad man in his idolatry that he did not even attempt to form any thing according to the model of God's true worship: he would have nothing like God and truth. In his calves, or rather oxen, he copied the manner of Egypt; and in the formation of his priesthood, he seems to have gone aside from all models. Amongst the worst of heathens, the priesthood was filled with respectable men; but Jeroboam took of the lowest of the people, and put them in that office.
Whosoever would, he consecrated him - He made no discrimination: any vagabond that offered was accepted even of those who had no character, who were too idle to work, and too stupid to learn. |
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].