³¹ He also made houses^[a] on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.^(A)

³² Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the festival that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; so he did 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.^(A)

¹⁵ and had appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat-demons and for the calves that he had made.^(A)

⁹ Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be consecrated with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.^(A)