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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Chronicles 11:15 - 11:15
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he ordained him priests - The persons he appointed to the priesthood were low and worthless creatures (1Ki 12:31; 1Ki 13:33); any were consecrated who brought a bullock and seven rams (2Ch 13:9; Exo 29:37).
for the high places - Those favorite places of religious worship were encouraged throughout the country.
for the devils - a term sometimes used for idols in general (Lev 17:7). But here it is applied distinctively to the goat deities, which were probably worshipped chiefly in the northern parts of his kingdom, where the heathen Canaanites still abounded.
for the calves which he had made - figures of the ox gods Apis and Mnevis, with which Jeroboam’s residence in Egypt had familiarized him. (See on 1Ki 12:26).