Bible Verses About Rebellion Against God: Jeroboam

And the king taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, `Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

And he setteth the one in Beth-El, and the other he hath put in Dan,

and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one--unto Dan.

And he maketh the house of high places, and maketh priests of the extremities of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi;

and Jeroboam maketh a festival in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that is in Judah, and he offereth on the altar--so did he in Beth-El--to sacrifice to the calves which he made, and he hath appointed in Beth-El the priests of the high places that he made.

And he offereth up on the altar that he made in Beth-El, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he devised of his own heart, and he maketh a festival to the sons of Israel, and offereth on the altar--to make perfume.