1 Kings 12:25-33

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁵ Then Jeroboam built Shechem on Mount Ephraim and dwelt in it and went from there and built Penuel.

²⁶ And Jeroboam thought in his heart, “Now shall the kingdom return to the House of David.

²⁷ “If this people goes up and does sacrifice in the House of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the hearts of this people turn back to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah. So shall they kill me and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.”

²⁸ Upon which the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold, O Israel, your gods which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

²⁹ And he set one in Bethel. And the other he set in Dan.

³⁰ And this thing turned to sin. For the people went (because of the one) as far as Dan.

³¹ Also, he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

³² And Jeroboam made a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the Feast that is in Judah, and offered on the altar. So he did in Bethel, and offered to the calves that he had made. And he placed the priests of the high places which he had made in Bethel.

³³ And 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 forged of his own heart) and made a solemn feast to the children of Israel. And he went up to the altar, to burn incense.