2 Chronicles 11:15

Contextual Overview

¹³The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. ¹³ The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. ¹³Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories. ¹³ Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him from all their districts. ¹³ And the priestes and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coastes. ¹³ And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their districts; ¹³ 1 Kings 14:21-24">[xr] And from all their territories the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him. ¹³ And the priests and the Levites in all Israel stationed themselves by him, out of all their territory. ¹³ The priests and the Levites from all over Israel agreed with Rehoboam and joined him. ¹³ The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for the devils: The word, seirim literally signifies hairy ones, or goats. See note on Leviticus 17:7. Deuteronomy 32:17, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 1 Corinthians 10:21, 1 Timothy 4:1, Revelation 16:14

for the calves: Exodus 32:4-8, Exodus 32:31, 1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 14:9, Psalms 106:19, Psalms 106:20, Hosea 8:5, Hosea 8:6, Hosea 13:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:41 - high places 1 Kings 12:31 - priests 1 Kings 13:33 - Jeroboam 2 Kings 17:21 - Jeroboam drave 2 Kings 17:27 - one of the priests 2 Chronicles 13:8 - with you golden 2 Chronicles 13:9 - cast out Psalms 106:37 - devils Hosea 10:5 - the calves

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he ordained him priests for the high places,.... Of such who were not of the tribe of Levi, and family of Aaron; see 1 Kings 12:31

and for the devils; demons in the shape of goats, as this word signifies, in which form many of the Heathen deities were worshipped; idols of whatsoever kind are so called; for whosoever worships them worships not God, but devils, 1 Corinthians 10:21 the images which Jeroboam set up may be meant, and the next clause may be rendered as explanative of them:

even for the calves which he had made; one of which he set up at Dan, and the other at Bethel, 1 Kings 12:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The high places - i. e., the two sanctuaries at Dan and Bethel.

For the devils - literally, “for the goats:” probably the word is used (as in Leviticus 17:7) for objects of idolatrous worship generally.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 11:15. And he ordained him priests - for the devils — שעירים seirim, the hairy ones; probably goats: for as the golden calves, or oxen, were in imitation of the Egyptian ox-god, Apis; so they no doubt paid Divine honours to the goat, which we know was an object of religious veneration in Egypt.