The invented feast at Bethel

32Jeroboam instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival celebrated in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did this at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made, and there he installed the priests of the high places he had established.

33He went up to the altar he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month—a month he had chosen on his own. He held a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to burn offerings.