1 Kings 12:28-33
12:28 After the king had consulted with his advisers,
he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,
“It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
12:29 He put one in Bethel
and the other in Dan.
12:30 This caused Israel to sin;
the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves.
12:31 He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.
12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival celebrated in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.
A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel
12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
1 Kings 14:9-16
14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.
14:10 So I am ready to bring disaster
on the dynasty
of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated.
I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed.
14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family
who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the
Lord has announced it!
14:12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.
14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.
14:14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!
14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.
14:16 He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”
1 Kings 15:34
15:34 He did evil in the sight of
the
Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.
1 Kings 15:2
15:2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem.
His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 3:3
3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the
Lord by following
the practices
of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.