Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.