מלכים א י״ב:כ״ה-ל״ג

אם יעלה העם הזה וגו'. אין ישיבה בעזרה אלא למלכי בית דוד בלבד, ויהיה הוא יושב ואני עומד, ובמוצאי שביעית בזמן הקהל, יקרא את פרשת המלך, שהוא ראש במדינתו, ואני כשאר העם, נמצאתי בזוי (סנהדרין קא ב):

If this people will go up, etc. Sitting in the Temple court is not permitted only for kings of the house of Dovid, therefore, he will be sitting and I will be standing. Moreover, [during Succos] following the Sabbatical Year, at the time of the Assembly, he [is the one who] will read the section [in Devarim] relating to the king,⁴See Mishnayos Sotah 7:8. for he is the king of his province, whereas I will be [standing] like the rest of the people, and I will, therefore, be degraded.⁵Maseches Sanhedrin 101b.

עד דן. בסוף גבול הארץ:

Even as far as Dan. At the end of the boundary of the land.⁶They were so attached to idol worship that they made the long pilgrimage from one end of the land all the way to the altar in Dan in the northernmost part of Yisroel.

בחודש השמיני. דרש להם הוא חדש האסיף, ובו ראוי החג להיות:

Of the eighth month. He expounded to them that this was the month of the harvest, and was, therefore, the proper time for the festival to be.

בדא מלבו. לשון כזב, קונטרובי"ר בלע"ז:

He thought up out of his own heart. An expression of falsehood, controver, in O.F.