bes - 1Kings:12:25-33

bes@1Kings:12:25 @ And Jeroboam built Sikima in mount Ephraim and dwelt in it, and went forth thence and built Phanuel.

bes@1Kings:12:26 @ And Jeroboam said in his heart, Behold, now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

bes@1Kings:12:27 @ If this people shall go up to offer sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of the people will return to the Lord, and to their master, to Roboam king of Juda, and they will slay me.

bes@1Kings:12:28 @ And the king took counsel, and went, and made two golden heifers, and said to the people, Let it suffice you (note:)Gr. to go to(:note) to have gone hitherto to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

bes@1Kings:12:29 @ And he put one in Bethel, and he (note:)Gr. gave(:note) put the other in Daniel.

bes@1Kings:12:30 @ And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord.

bes@1Kings:12:31 @ And he made houses on the high places, and made priests of any part of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

bes@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land of Juda;

bes@1Kings:12:33 @ and went up to the altar which he made in Baethel to sacrifice to the heifers which he made, and he placed in Baethel the priests of the high places which he had made. And he went up to the altar which he had made, on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, at the feast which he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast to the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to sacrifice.