²⁹One he set up in Bethel,ⁿ and the other in Dan.^o ³⁰And this thing became a sin;^p the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.^d

³¹Jeroboam built shrines^q on high places and appointed priests^r from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. ³²He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth^s month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel,^t sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made. ³³On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel.^u So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to make offerings.

The Man of God From Judah

13By the word of the Lord a man of God^v came from Judah to Bethel,^w as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering.

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Footnotes

dProbable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text people went to the one as far as Dan

Cross references

nSee Ge 12:8; See Jos 7:2
o Jdg 18:27–31; Am 8:14
p 1 Ki 13:34; 14:16; 15:26, 30; 16:2; 2 Ki 3:3; 10:29; 13:2; 17:21
qSee Lev 26:30; 1 Ki 13:32; 2 Ki 17:29
rSee Ex 29:9; 1 Ki 13:33; 2 Ki 17:32; 2 Ch 11:14–15; 13:9
sSee Nu 29:12
t 2 Ki 10:29
u 2 Ki 23:15; Am 7:13
vSee Dt 33:1; See Jdg 13:6
w Am 7:13