2Ki 17:28 Cross References

2 Kings 17:28

28: So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria returned to Bethel and taught the new residents how to worship the LORD.

He placed these calf idols at the southern and northern ends of Israel--in Bethel and in Dan.
This became a great sin, for the people worshiped them, traveling even as far as Dan.
Jeroboam built shrines at the pagan high places and ordained priests from the rank and file of the people--those who were not from the priestly tribe of Levi.
Jeroboam also instituted a religious festival in Bethel, held on a day in midautumn, similar to the annual Festival of Shelters in Judah. There at Bethel he himself offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. And it was at Bethel that he appointed priests for the pagan shrines he had made.

And so the Lord says, "These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away. And their worship of me amounts to nothing more than human laws learned by rote.

so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch."

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