Then Saul built an altar to the LORD. This was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest made [it] before King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

" Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning.

"For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces."

"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, these [are] My feasts.

' These [are] the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.

'And you shall proclaim on the same day [that] it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work [on it. It shall be] a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

'These [are] the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day --

She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth with high honor among the people;

And Jehu said, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal." So they proclaimed [it.]

So they resolved to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem, since they had not done [it] for a long [time] in the [prescribed] manner.

And he received [the gold] from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This [is] your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!"

And Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD."

'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.

Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that [was] in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.

So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.