1 Reyes 12:33

33 Así que el día quince del octavo mes, una fecha que él mismo había designado, Jeroboam ofreció sacrificios sobre el altar de Betel. Él instituyó un festival religioso para Israel y subió al altar a 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Plutarch de lside & Osiride.

1 Reyes 12:33 In-Context

31 Además, Jeroboam construyó edificios en el mismo sitio de los santuarios paganos y consagró sacerdotes de entre la gente común, es decir, personas que no pertenecían a la tribu sacerdotal de Leví.

32 También instituyó un festival religioso en Betel, que se celebraba el día quince del octavo mes,
y que era una imitación del Festival de las Enramadas en Judá. Allí, en Betel, Jeroboam ofrecía sacrificios a los becerros que había hecho, y nombró sacerdotes para los santuarios paganos que había construido.

33 Así que el día quince del octavo mes, una fecha que él mismo había designado, Jeroboam ofreció sacrificios sobre el altar de Betel. Él instituyó un festival religioso para Israel y subió al altar a quemar incienso.