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A feast - This feast was intended as a substitute for the Feast of Tabernacles. It may also have taken on the character of a dedication feas…

Of the lowest of the people. —This is universally recognized as a mistranslation, though a natural one, of the original, “the ends…

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah,
He shif…

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah

Jeroboam distrusted the providence of God; he would contrive ways and means, and sinful ones too, for his own safety. A practical disbelief of God'…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes