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Passage Lookup: 1 Kings 12:25-32
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1 Kings 12:25
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Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.
1 Kings 12:26
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Jeroboam thought to himself, "The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.
1 Kings 12:27
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If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam."
1 Kings 12:28
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After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."
1 Kings 12:29
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One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
1 Kings 12:30
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And this thing became a sin; the people went even as far as Dan to worship the one there.
1 Kings 12:31
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Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.
1 Kings 12:32
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He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, 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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