22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

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Then Abijah stood on Mount (A)Zemaraim, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

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29 And he set up one in (A)Bethel, and the other he put in (B)Dan. 30 Now this thing became (C)a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. 31 He made [a]shrines on the high places, (D)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 (E)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. (F)And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:31 Lit. a house; cf. 1 Kin. 13:32, lit. houses
  2. 1 Kings 12:32 instituted

18 Then it passed along toward the north side of [a]Arabah, and went down to Arabah.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 18:18 Beth Arabah, Josh. 15:6; 18:22

The border went up to (A)Beth Hoglah and passed north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up (B)to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

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18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.

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