1Kings:12:25-33
lesserot@1Kings:12:25 @ And Jeroboam built Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from there and built Penuel.
lesserot@1Kings:12:26 @ And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now may the kingdom return to the house of David:
lesserot@1Kings:12:27 @ If this people go up to prepare sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then may the heart of this people turn again unto their Lord, even unto Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they might kill me, and return to Rehoboam the king of Judah.
lesserot@1Kings:12:28 @ Whereupon the king took counsel, and he made two calves of gold, and said unto the people, You have been long enough going up to Jerusalem: behold, here are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
lesserot@1Kings:12:29 @ And he placed the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Daniel.
lesserot@1Kings:12:30 @ And this thing became a sin; and the people went before the one, as far as Daniel.
lesserot@1Kings:12:31 @ And he made a house of the highplaces, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
lesserot@1Kings:12:32 @ And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he stationed at Bethel the priests of the highplaces whom he had made.
lesserot@1Kings:12:33 @ So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had falsely devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast unto the children of Israel, and he went up to the altar, to burn incense.