3 Kings 12:31
And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et fecit fana in excelsis, et sacerdotes de extremis populi, qui non erant de filiis Levi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐποίησεν οἴκους ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλῶν, καὶ ἐποίησεν ἱερεῖς μέρος τι ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ οἳ οὐκ ἦσαν ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν Λευεί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֖עַשׂ אֶת בֵּ֣ית בָּמ֑וֹת וַיַּ֤עַשׂ כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ מִקְצ֣וֹת הָעָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא הָי֖וּ מִבְּנֵ֥י לֵוִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Places, to other idols or devils, (2 Paralipomenon xi. 15.; Haydock) not merely at Bethel, chap. xiii.
Lowest. Such places were fittest for him. (Worthington)
Hebrew, "extremity:" others understand people of reputation: but it seems he took any whosoever would (chap. xiii. 33.) accept the office, without confining himself to the Levites. (Calmet)
Indeed most of them were banished, as refractory; (2 Paralipomenon xi. 13.) though some were so weak as to take part with him; (Ezechiel xliv. 10.) probably the descendants of Micha, Judges xviii. 31. (Haydock)
They were not punished with instant death, like Core, though their crime seemed greater. (Salien)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.