1 Kings 12:31-33

Christian Standard Bible

³¹ Jeroboam also made shrines^[a] on the high places^(A) and made priests from the ranks of the 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 made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.^{(D) 33} He offered sacrifices on^[b] the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own.^(E) He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.^(F)