30. He laid the body of the man of God in his own tomb and mourned over the man, saying, “Oh no, my brother, my brother!”
31. After he had buried the man of God, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the man of God was buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
32. The things that he announced by a command of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and all the illegal worship sites in the cities of Samaria will happen.”
33. Even after this, Jer o boam didn’t change his evil ways, but he once again made some men priests for the illegal worship sites. He took all who were willing and appointed them to be priests at the worship sites.
34. Appointing illegal priests became the sin of Jer o boam’s family so that it had to be destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth.