I Kings 12 Jeroboam's Idolatry

 I Kings 12

Jeroboam's Idolatry

26- And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

27 If this people will go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah.

28- So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It will be too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold, O Israel, your gods, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

29- And he set one in Bethel, and he set the other in Dan.

30- And the thing became a sin: for the people went every man to Dan to worship.

31- And he made high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

32 Then Jeroboam held a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that was held in Judah, and he sacrificed on the altar. He did the same in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. He also set priests in Bethel for the high places that he had made.

33 And he sacrificed on the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he had devised in his heart. Thus he held a feast for the children of Israel, and sacrificed on the altar, burning incense.