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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. וַיַּעַשׂ וַיָּשָׁב, “he returned and made,” i.e., he made again or continued to make. For the fact itself compare 1Ki 12:31. “Whoever had pleasure (הֶחָפֵץ, cf., Ges. §109), he filled his hand, that he might become a priest of the high places.” מִלֵּא אֶת־יָדֹו, 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 בָּמֹות כֹּהֲנֵי is used with indefinite generality: that he might be ranked among the priests of high places.
1Ki 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. הַזֶּה בַּדָּבָר is not a mistake for הַזֶּה הַדָּבָר, but בְּ is used, as in 1Ch 9:33; 1Ch 7:23, to express the idea of being and persisting in a thing (for this use of בְּ compare Ewald, §295, f.).