1 Re 12:33

33 Il quindicesimo giorno dell’ottavo mese, mese che aveva scelto di sua testa, Geroboamo salì all’altare che aveva costruito a Bethel, fece una festa per i figliuoli d’Israele, e salì all’altare per offrire profumi.

1 Re 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 Re 12:33 In-Context

31 Egli fece anche delle case d’alti luoghi, e creò dei sacerdoti presi qua e là di fra il popolo, e che non erano de’ figliuoli di Levi.

32 Geroboamo istituì pure una solennità nell’ottavo mese, nel quindicesimo giorno del mese, simile alla solennità che si celebrava in Giuda, e offrì dei sacrifizi sull’altare. Così fece a Bethel perché si offrissero sacrifizi ai vitelli ch’egli avea fatti; e a Bethel stabilì i sacerdoti degli alti luoghi che aveva eretti.

33 Il quindicesimo giorno dell’ottavo mese, mese che aveva scelto di sua testa, Geroboamo salì all’altare che aveva costruito a Bethel, fece una festa per i figliuoli d’Israele, e salì all’altare per offrire profumi.