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

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

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

(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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