13:4-6 No Other Gods Those in power are usually intent on staying in power. Jeroboam feared losing power. He worried that the people traveling to the Temple at Jerusalem would switch their allegiance to the king of Judah. So he created his own religious idols, practices, and festivals to keep the people at home. When confronted by a prophet of God, his resistance resulted in a temporary paralysis of his arm and—much more seriously—an increasingly hardened heart.