¹⁵ Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the ^[a]high place ^(A)which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image.

⁶ And he brought out the ^(A)wooden^[a] image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ^(B)ashes, and threw its ashes on ^(C)the graves of the common people.

¹⁶ And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, ^(A)who sinned and who made Israel sin.”

³¹ But Jehu ^[a]took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart; for he did not depart from ^(A)the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin.

²² I will make your house like the house of ^(A)Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of ^(B)Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and made Israel sin.’

^30 (A)because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

²⁸ Therefore the king asked advice, ^(A)made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. ^(B)Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!” ²⁹ And he set up one in ^(C)Bethel, and the other he put in ^(D)Dan. ³⁰ Now this thing became ^(E)a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. ³¹ He made ^[a]shrines on the high places, ^(F)and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

³² Jeroboam ^[b]ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like ^(G)the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. ^(H)And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made. ³³ So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had ^(I)devised in his own heart. And he ^[c]ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and ^(J)burned incense.

The Message of the Man of God

13 And behold, ^(K)a man of God went from Judah to Bethel ^[d]by the word of the Lord, ^(L)and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.