3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 1 Solomon would offer up 2 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
13:33 After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; 6 he continued to appoint common people 7 as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 8
1 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
2 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
3 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
4 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
5 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.
6 tn Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”
7 sn The expression common people refers to people who were not Levites. See 1 Kgs 12:31.
8 tn Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”