1 Reyes 12:33

Listen to 1 Reyes 12:33
33 Entonces subi贸 al altar que hab铆a hecho en Betel el d铆a quince del mes octavo, es decir en el mes que 茅l hab铆a planeado en su propio coraz贸n; e instituy贸 una fiesta para los hijos de Israel, y subi贸 al altar para quemar incienso.

1 Reyes 12:33 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 12:33

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 tabernacles was of God's appointing, but the time of keeping he had devised himself, changing it from the seventh month, or Tisri, which answers to our September and October, to the eighth month, or Marchesvan, which answers to part of October and part of November:

and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel;
to be observed by them as the feast of tabernacles was by the priests of Judah and Benjamin:

and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense;
which none but the priests should do; perhaps the reason why the same resentment was not shown as to Uzziah was, because this was not at the altar of the Lord: whether he burnt incense after the manner of the Jewish priests, or as the priests of Egypt did to the sun, where he had been for some time, is not certain; the former burnt incense only twice a day, morning and evening, the latter three times; at sunrising they burnt rosin, about noon myrrh, and about sun setting "kuphi", which was a compound of sixteen sorts F23.


FOOTNOTES:

F23 Plutarch de lside & Osiride.
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1 Reyes 12:33 In-Context

31 Hizo tambi茅n casas en los lugares altos, e hizo sacerdotes de entre el pueblo que no eran de los hijos de Lev铆.
32 Y Jeroboam instituy贸 una fiesta en el mes octavo, en el d铆a quince del mes, como la fiesta que hay en Jud谩, y subi贸 al altar. As铆 hizo en Betel, ofreciendo sacrificio a los becerros que hab铆a hecho. Y puso en Betel a los sacerdotes de los lugares altos que 茅l hab铆a construido.
33 Entonces subi贸 al altar que hab铆a hecho en Betel el d铆a quince del mes octavo, es decir en el mes que 茅l hab铆a planeado en su propio coraz贸n; e instituy贸 una fiesta para los hijos de Israel, y subi贸 al altar para quemar incienso.
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