Turned himself. — So that he caught sight of the tombs on the hill-side opposite — not on the hill where the high place was.
The man of God proclaimed. — Some words appear to have fallen out of the Hebrew text here, for the LXX. adds, “when Jeroboam stood in the feast at the altar. And he returned and lifted up his eyes upon the grave of the man of God.” (A transcriber’s eye wandered from one “man of God” to the other.) Josiah returned, when on the point of going away.