So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
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Gill's Exposition
They feared the Lord, and served their own gods,.... Worshipped both:
after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence; the Israelites, whom they had carried captive from Samaria;…
Barnes' Notes
Of the lowest of them - Rather, “from all ranks.” See marginal reference note.
Adam Clarke
Of the lowest of them priests - One priest was not enough for this motley population; and, as the priesthood was probably neither respectable nor lucrative, it was only the lowest of the people who…
Never was land lost, we say, for want of an heir. When the children of Israel were dispossessed, and turned out of Canaan, the king of Assyria soon transplanted thither the supernumeraries of his own…
Cambridge Bible
So they feared the Lord i.e. In the way in which their ideas of the worship of the local divinity demanded. This they did, says Bp Hall, -not for devotion, but for impunity. Vain politicians to think…
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