1 Kings 12:29

He told his workers to place one of the statues in Bethel city in the south and one in Dan city in the north.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

In Context

28So he consulted his advisors, and then he did what they suggested. He told his workers to make gold statues of two calves. Then he said to the people, “You have been going to Jerusalem to worship for a long time. It is a big trouble for you to continue going there. You people of Israel, look! These statues are the gods that brought our ancestors up from Egypt! So you can worship these, here!”

30So what Jeroboam did caused the people to sin. Some of them went and worshiped the calf at Bethel, and others went and worshiped the other calf at Dan.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:8From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel town. Bethel town was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai town was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.

Genesis 28:19He named that place Bethel, which means ‘house of God’. Previously its name was Luz.

Deuteronomy 34:1Then Moses climbed up from the plains in the Moab region to the top of Pisgah Peak on Nebo Mountain, across the Jordan River from Jericho. There Yahweh showed him all the land that the Israelis would occupy. He showed him the Gilead region as far north as Dan city;

Judges 18:27The men of the tribe of Dan were carrying the things that had been made for Micah, and they also took his priest, and they continued traveling to Laish. They attacked the people who were peacefully living there, and killed them with their swords, and then they burned everything in the city.

Judges 20:1All the Israelis, from Dan city in the north to Beersheba city in the south, and even from the Gilead region on the east side of the Jordan River, heard what had happened. So they they gathered together at Mizpah, at the place where they worshiped Yahweh.

2 Kings 10:29But Jehu did not quit committing the kinds of sins that Jeroboam had committed, sins that led the people of Israel to sin by worshiping the gold statues of calves in Bethel and Dan cities.

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 →

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