Footnote

a Note, too, that others consecrated their priests. At Judges 17:5, 12 we read of where the apostate Micah consecrated first a son and then an unfaithful Levite to be a priest at the idol house he built. And at 1 Kings 13:33 and; 2 Chronicles 13:9 we read of where apostate King Jeroboam set up the golden calves for idolatrous worship and “whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places”.