1 Kings 12:26-28

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁶ Jeroboam said to himself, “The way things are going now, the kingdom might return to the house of David.^{(A) 27} If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem,^(B) the heart of these people will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will murder me and go back to the king of Judah.” ²⁸ So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God^[a] who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”^(C)