1Ki 13:33
But this did not lead Jeroboam to conversion. He turned not from his evil way, but continued to make high priests from the mass of the people. ויּעשׂ ויּשׁב, “he returned and made,” i.e., he made again or continued to make. For the fact itself compare 1Ki 12:31. “Whoever had pleasure (החפץ, cf., Ges. §109), he filled his hand, that he might become a priest of the high places.” מלּא את־ידו, to fill the hand, is the technical expression for investing with the priesthood, according to the rite prescribed for the consecration of the priests, namely, to place sacrificial gifts in the hands of the persons to be consecrated (see at Lev 7:37 and Lev 8:25.). The plural בּמות כּהני is used with indefinite generality: that he might be ranked among the priests of high places.