11:012:026 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall
the kingdom return
to
the house of David:
11:012:027 If this people go up to do sacrifice in
the house of the lord
at
Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn
again
unto
their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they
shall
kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
11:012:028 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made
two calves of gold,
and
said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to
Jerusalem:
behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up
out
of the land of Egypt.
11:012:029 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
11:012:030 And this thing became a sin: for the
people went to worship
before
the one, even unto Dan.
11:012:031 And he made an house of high places, and
made priests of the
lowest
of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
11:012:032 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth
month, on the
fifteenth
day of the month, like unto the feast that is in
Judah,
and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel,
sacrificing
unto the calves that he had made: and he placed
in
Bethel
the priests of the high places which he had made.
11:012:033 So he offered upon the altar which he had
made in Bethel the
fifteenth
day of the eighth month, even in the month which he
had
devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto
the
children
of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and
burnt
incense.
11:013:001 And, behold, there came a man of God out
of Judah by the word
of
the lord unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood
by the altar to
burn
incense.
11:013:002 And he cried against the altar in the word
of the lord, and
said,
O altar, altar, thus saith the lord; Behold, a
child
shall
be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and
upon
thee shall he offer the priests of the high places
that
burn
incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt
upon
thee.
11:013:003 And he gave a sign the same day, saying,
This is the sign
which
the lord hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall
be rent,
and
the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
11:013:004 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam
heard the saying of
the
man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel,
that
he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold
on
him.
And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried
up,
so
that he could not pull it in again to him.


