[12:25] King Jeroboam of Israel fortified the town of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there for a while. Then he left and fortified the town of Penuel.
[12:28] After thinking it over, he made two bull-calves of gold and said to his people, “You have been going long enough to Jerusalem to worship. People of Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt!”
[12:29] He placed one of the gold bull-calves in Bethel and the other in Dan.
[12:30] And so the people sinned, going to worship in Bethel and in Dan.
[12:31] Jeroboam also built places of worship on hilltops, and he chose priests from families who were not of the tribe of Levi.