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Jeroboam thought to himself: "The kingdom will return to David's house. (1 Kings 12, 26)
If now this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, the hearts of this people will return to their master, Rehoboam, king of Judah, and they will kill me." (1 Kings 12, 27)
After taking counsel, the king made two calves of gold and said to the people: "You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here is your God, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt." (1 Kings 12, 28)
Jeroboam established a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month to duplicate in Bethel the pilgrimage feast of Judah, with sacrifices to the calves he had made; and he stationed in Bethel priests of the high places he had built. (1 Kings 12, 32)
Jeroboam ascended the altar he built in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month in which he arbitrarily chose to establish a feast for the Israelites; he was going to offer sacrifice. (1 Kings 12, 33)
A man of God came from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to offer sacrifice. (1 Kings 13, 1)
When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God was crying out against the altar, he stretched forth his hand from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But the hand he stretched forth against him withered, so that he could not draw it back. (1 Kings 13, 4)
Then the king appealed to the man of God. "Entreat the LORD, your God," he said, "and intercede for me that I may be able to withdraw my hand." So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king recovered the normal use of his hand. (1 Kings 13, 6)
"Come home with me for some refreshment," the king invited the man of God, "and I will give you a present." (1 Kings 13, 7)
"If you gave me half your kingdom," the man of God said to the king, "I would not go with you, nor eat bread or drink water in this place. (1 Kings 13, 8)
There was an old prophet living in the city, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. When they repeated to their father the words he had spoken to the king, (1 Kings 13, 11)
Jeroboam did not give up his evil ways after this event, but again made priests for the high places from among the common people. Whoever desired it was consecrated and became a priest of the high places. (1 Kings 13, 33)
