This thing became a sin, for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar.
He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.