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1 Kings 12:30-33
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1 Kings 12:30-33
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30 The people sinned because they started going to these places to worship.
31 Jeroboam built small places of worship at the shrines[a] and appointed men who were not from the tribe of Levi to serve as priests. 32-33 (A) He also decided to start a new festival for the Israelites on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just like the one in Judah.[b] On that day, Jeroboam went to Bethel and offered sacrifices on the altar to the gold calf he had put there. Then he assigned the priests their duties.
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