1 Kings 12:25–33
25 Then aJeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived 1there. And he went out from there and built bPenuel.
26 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
27 “aIf this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
28 So the king 1consulted, and amade two golden bcalves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; cbehold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
29 He set aone in bBethel, and the other he put in cDan.
30 Now athis thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
31 And ahe made houses on high places, and bmade priests from among 1all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.
32 Jeroboam 1instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, alike the feast which is in Judah, and he 2went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel bthe priests of the high places which he had made.
33 Then he 1went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had 2adevised 3in his own heart; and he 2instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and 1went up to the altar bto burn 4incense.