1 Kings 12:31-32

31He also made atemples on high places and bappointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. 32And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like cthe feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel dthe priests of the high places that he had made.

1 Kings 13:33

33After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.

2 Kings 14:23-24

Jeroboam II Reigns in Israel

23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ewhich he made Israel to sin.

2 Chronicles 13:8-9

8“And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you fthe golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods. 9 gHave you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes hfor ordination
Hebrew to fill his hand
with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are jnot gods.

Jeremiah 20:1-3

Jeremiah Persecuted by Pashhur

1Now kPashhur the priest, the son of lImmer, who was mchief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2Then nPashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him oin the stocks that were in the upper pBenjamin Gate of the house of the Lord. 3The next day, when qPashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name rPashhur, but Terror on Every Side.
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