So it was that they feared Jehovah, and made for themselves, of the lowest of them, priests of the high places and they sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
And he offered up on the altar that he made in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast for the sons of Israel, and offered on the altar, to burn incense.
And it happened after he buried him that he said to his sons, saying, When I die you shall bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried, place my bones beside his bones.
After this thing Jeroboam did not turn back from his evil way, but turned and made from the ends of the people priests of the high places; he who desired he filled his hand and he was one of the priests of the high places.
And it happened at the beginning of their living there, they did not fear Jehovah, and Jehovah sent lions among them, and they were striking among them.
And nation by nation was making gods of their own, and putting them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, nation by nation in their cities where they lived.
And it happened, these nations feared Jehovah, yet they served their graven images, both their sons and their sons’ sons. As their fathers did, they are doing to this day.
And also all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria, that the kings of Israel had made to provoke Jehovah to anger, Josiah took away, and he did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
even they came to Zerubbabel and to the head of the fathers and said to them, Let us build with you, for we seek your God, as you. And we have not sacrificed to Him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.