Jeroboam - Is He Just Making Stuff Up?

He he wants it to be close enough to what's happening in the south, to what they're used to. So there is a seeming continuity, but the seeming continuity is all a lie. Everything that he's just done is in direct contradiction to what god had laid out very clearly multiple times in the tora. And any chance he had of actually having a sure house that god had promised him, like the house of david, he destroyed from the very beginning.