And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
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Gill's Exposition
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month,.... As he had done in Dan:
even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; the feast of…
Barnes' Notes
He made an house of high places - i. e., “He built a temple, or sanctuary, at each of the two cities where the calves were set up.” The writer uses the expression “house of high places” in contempt,…
Adam Clarke
A house of high places - A temple of temples; he had many high places in the land, and to imitate the temple at Jerusalem, he made one chief over all the rest, where he established a priesthood of his…
We have here the beginning of the reign of Jeroboam. He built Shechem first and then Penuel - beautified and fortified them, and probably had a palace in each of them for himself (Kg1 12:25), the…
Cambridge Bible
An house of high places The graven image must have its temple. So in Bethel and in Dan buildings were raised, and an eminence chosen for the site of each. Hence it is better to render the plural…
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