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1 Kings 12
²⁸ So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt."
²⁹ He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
³⁰ Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
³¹ And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.
³² Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
³³ Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.
1 Kings 13
¹ Now behold, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
² He cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the Lord, ’Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’"
³ Then he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the Lord has spoken, ’Behold, the altar shall be split apart and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out.’"
⁴ Now when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
⁵ The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.