31 Jeroboam built worship sites on hilltops. He appointed men who were not descended from Levi to be priests.
1 Kings 12:31 Cross References - NSB
Numbers 3:10
10 »Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests. Anyone else who tries to do the priests’ duties must be put to death.«
Deuteronomy 24:15
15 »Pay him his wages on the workday day before the sunsets. He is poor and sets his heart on it. He will not complain against you to Jehovah and it becomes your sin.
1 Kings 13:24
24 He went on his way. A lion met him on the road and jumped him and killed him. His dead body was stretched in the road with the donkey by its side. The lion was by the body.
1 Kings 13:32-33
32 »The words that he spoke at Jehovah’s command against the altar in Bethel and against all the places of worship in the towns of Samaria will surely come true.«
33 King Jeroboam of Israel still did not turn from his evil ways. He continued to choose priests from ordinary families to serve at the altars he had built. He ordained as priest anyone who wanted to be one.
2 Kings 17:32
32 So they worshipped Jehovah. They appointed priests from the people for the high places. The priests were to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.
2 Chronicles 11:14-15
2 Chronicles 13:9
9 »You drove out Jehovah’s priests! You evicted the descendants of Aaron and the Levites. In their place you appointed priests in the same way that other nations do. Anybody who comes along with a bull or seven sheep can get himself consecrated as a priest of those so-called gods of yours.
Ezekiel 16:25
25 »You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.
Ezekiel 44:6-8
6 »‘Tell the rebellious people of Israel: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I have had enough of all the disgusting things that you have done, people of Israel.
7 »‘You brought godless foreigners into my holy place. You dishonored my temple when you offered fat and blood to me. You rejected my promise so that you could do all your disgusting things.
8 »‘You did not take care of my holy things. You put foreigners in charge of my Temple!«’
Hosea 12:11
11 »The people of Gilead are evil. They are worthless. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. But their altars will become like piles of rubble beside a plowed field.