1 King 12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Kings 12The Northern Tribes Secede

1 “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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31 on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

32Lev 23.33, 34; Num 29.12; Am 7.13Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the festival that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

331 Kings 13.1He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had selected on his own; he appointed a festival for the people of Israel, and he went up to the altar to offer incense.