33After 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. …
For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-34)Here is, I. The death of the deceived disobedient prophet. The old prophet that had deluded him, as if he would make him some amends for the wrong he had done him or help to prevent the mischief threatened him, furnished him with an ass to ride home on; but by the way a lion set upon him, and killed him, 1 Kgs. 13:23 , 24 . He did but return back to refresh himself when he was hungry, and behold h…
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