33 And he began to make offerings upon the altar that he had made in Bethʹel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had invented by himself;*+ and he proceeded to make a festival for the sons of Israel and to make offerings upon the altar to make sacrificial smoke.+

15 And also the altar that was in Bethʹel,+ the high place that Jer·o·boʹam+ the son of Neʹbat, who caused Israel to sin,+ had made, even that altar and the high place he pulled down. Then he burned the high place; he ground [it] to dust* and burned the sacred pole.

31 And as soon as they finished all this, all the Israelites+ that were found [there] went out to the cities of Judah,+ and they proceeded to break up the sacred pillars+ and cut down the sacred poles*+ and pull down the high places+ and the altars+ out of all Judah+ and Benjamin and in Eʹphra·im+ and Ma·nasʹseh+ until they had finished; after which all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each one to his own possession.

2 And now they commit additional sin and make for themselves a molten statue from their silver,+ idols according to their own understanding,+ the work of craftsmen, all of it.+ To them they are saying, ‘Let the sacrificers who are men* kiss mere calves.’+