So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they
Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places fr
those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by
Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up
After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is