1 Kings 12:30
And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
In Context
29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off and destroyed from the face of the earth.
1 Kings 16:27Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 17:21Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam son of Nabat their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.
Hosea 10:8And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains: Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 12:26-33
Jeroboam's Idolatry. ( b. c. 975.) 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made… Read the whole commentary →