13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. 2 When his sons came home, they told their father 3 everything the prophet 4 had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. 5
12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 17 Jeroboam 18 offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 19 He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
1 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
2 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
3 tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.
4 tn Heb “the man of God.”
5 tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”
3 tn Heb “and this thing became a sin.”
4 tc The MT reads “and the people went before the one to Dan.” It is likely that some words have been accidentally omitted and that the text originally said, “and the people went before the one at Bethel and before the one at Dan.”
4 sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.
5 sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.
6 tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”
5 tn Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.
6 tn Heb “the man of God.”
7 tn Heb “came by the word of the
6 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
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8 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.
7 tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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8 tn Heb “the man of God.”
9 tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”
10 tn Heb “saying.”
11 tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”