³¹ Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places^(A) and set up priests from every class of people who were not Levites.^{(B) 32} Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah.^(C) He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.^(D)

³³ After all this^(A) Jeroboam did not repent^(B) of his evil way but again set up priests for the high places from every class of people.^(C) He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.^(D)