Holy Scripture
1 Kings 12:30
A church father on this verse
“Now let us talk also about the second kind of scandal, which, we said, arises from human cleverness.… Jeroboam raised up a scandal. He set up as gods for the people, golden calves—pitiful images—to keep them from seeking the living God, the true temple, God's law, the rightly appointed kings and their ancestral rites.…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
30And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord.
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28And the king took counsel, and went, and made two golden heifers, and said to the people, Let it suffice you to have gone hitherto to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
29And he put one in Bethel, and he put the other in Dan.
— 1 Kings 12:30 —
31And he made houses on the high places, and made priests of any part of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
32And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land of Judah;