31 He made [a]shrines on the high places, (A)and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

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  1. 1 Kings 12:31 Lit. a house; cf. 1 Kin. 13:32, lit. houses

31 Jeroboam built shrines(A) on high places and appointed priests(B) from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

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32 Jeroboam [a]ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like (A)the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. (B)And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.

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  1. 1 Kings 12:32 instituted

32 He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth(A) month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel,(B) sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.

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15 (A)Then he appointed for himself priests for the [a]high places, for (B)the demons, and (C)the calf idols which he had made.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 11:15 Places for pagan worship

15 when he appointed(A) his own priests(B) for the high places and for the goat(C) and calf(D) idols he had made.

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(A)Have you not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of other lands, (B)so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may be a priest of (C)things that are not gods?

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But didn’t you drive out the priests(A) of the Lord,(B) the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull(C) and seven rams(D) may become a priest of what are not gods.(E)

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