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27 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house[a] of Yahweh in Jerusalem. The heart of this people will return to their master Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they shall kill me and return to him.”[b]

28 And the king had decided, so he made two golden calves and he said to them,[c]You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough;[d] here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 29 He put one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:27 Or “temple”
  2. 1 Kings 12:27 Hebrew “return to Rehoboam the king of Judah”
  3. 1 Kings 12:28 That is, the people
  4. 1 Kings 12:28 Literally “enough for you from going up to Jerusalem”