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If this people continues to go up to the Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem to offer sacrifices, the people's heart will turn back again to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will put me to death.' (1 Kings 12, 27)
So the king thought this over and then made two golden calves; he said to the people, 'You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here is your God, Israel, who brought you out of Egypt!' (1 Kings 12, 28)
Jeroboam also instituted a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth of the month, like the feast kept in Judah, when he offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did at Bethel, offering sacrifices to the calves which he had made and, at Bethel, installing the priests of the high places which he had set up. (1 Kings 12, 32)
There came to Bethel at Yahweh's command a man of God from Judah, just as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer the sacrifice, (1 Kings 13, 1)
When the king heard how the man of God denounced the altar of Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, 'Seize him!' But the hand he stretched out against the man withered, and he could not draw it back, (1 Kings 13, 4)
The king said to the man of God, 'I beg you to placate Yahweh your God, and so restore me the use of my hand.' The man of God placated Yahweh; the king's hand was restored as it had been before. (1 Kings 13, 6)
The king then said to the man of God, 'Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I shall give you a present,' (1 Kings 13, 7)
but the man of God replied to the king, 'Were you to give me half your palace, I would not go with you. I will eat and drink nothing here, (1 Kings 13, 8)
Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel, and his sons came to tell him all that the man of God had done in Bethel that day; and the words which he had said to the king, they told these to their father too. (1 Kings 13, 11)
Jeroboam did not give up his wicked ways after this incident, but went on appointing priests for the high places from the common people. He consecrated as priests of the high places any who wished to be. (1 Kings 13, 33)
Such conduct made the House of Jeroboam a sinful House, and caused its ruin and extinction from the face of the earth. (1 Kings 13, 34)
At that time Abijah, Jeroboam's son, fell sick, (1 Kings 14, 1)
