Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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1 Kings 12:33
This verse belongs to I Kings 13 rather than to I Kings 12, being intended as an introduction to what follows.
Which he had devised of his own heart - The entire system of Jeroboam receives its condemnation in these words. His main fault was that he left a ritual and a worship where all was divinely authorized, for ceremonies and services which were wholly of his own devising. Not being a prophet, he had no authority to introduce religious innovations. Not having received any commission to establish new forms, he had no right to expect that any religious benefit would accrue from them. (See I Kings 12:26 note.)
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 12:33:
2 Kings 2:23
Hosea 5:11
Amos 3:14
Amos 7:13
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