1 Kings 12:30-32

The Voice

³⁰ This was a horribly wicked sin. People even traveled with the golden calf in a religious procession when it was placed in Dan. ³¹ Jeroboam constructed temples on high places, and he appointed men to be priests who were not descendants of Levi.

³² Jeroboam instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. It was similar to the Feast of Booths that is celebrated in the seventh month in Judah.^[a] He then approached the altar in Bethel and offered sacrifices to the golden calves he had crafted. While he was doing this, he instructed the priests of the country’s high places to serve in Bethel.