At 1 Kings 12: 32, we read: “Jeroboam went on to make a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that was in Judah, that he might make offerings upon the altar that he had made in Bethel. ”
به این ترتیب پرستش گوساله دین رسمی اسرائیل شد .‏ —‏ ۲تواریخ ۱۱ :‏ ۱۳ -‏ ۱۵ .‏