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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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1 Kings 12:30-32
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1 Kings 12:30-32
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30 And this thing became a sin;(A) the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.[a]
31 Jeroboam built shrines(B) on high places and appointed priests(C) from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. 32 He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth(D) month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel,(E) sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.
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- 1 Kings 12:30 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text people went to the one as far as Dan
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