2 Chronicles 11:15

15. Ordained him priests See on 1 Kings 12:31.

For the devils לשׂעירים , for the goats. The word is translated satyrs in Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14, and is supposed to have been a goat-shaped deity, a wood-demon, that dwelt in desert places, and was to be appeased by Divine worship. “This superstition,” says Furst, “was probably derived from Egypt, where a goat, ( Josephus, Apion, 2:7 ,) or Pan, who was depicted with a goat’s head and feet, ( Herod., 2:46, 145,) was worshipped.” The word is used in Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 16:9; Numbers 7:16; Numbers 15:24, for the he goat that was sacrificed as a sin offering; but Jeroboam probably meant to recognize and introduce the superstitions of Egypt, and set up images of Pan as well as the calves, though probably not until after his people had become familiar with the calf worship. Comp. note on 1 Kings 12:28.