The words “they also” are emphatic. Not only did the Israelites make high places for themselves (1 Kings 12:31; [Reference 1 Kings 13:3…

High places, and images, and groves. —Regarding the “high places,” see 1 Kings 3:2 and the Note there. The “images” in…

They could not have enough of it. When men go wrong, they generally go wrong very greedily; they cannot have too much of evil.

For they also built them high places
Which, though allowed of, or at least connived at, before the temple was built,…

Nothing good is said here of Rehoboam, and much is said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The prevalence of the worst crimes, those of the worst…