1 Kings 12:28-30

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²⁸So the king asked his advisors what to do. They gave him their advice, and King Jeroboam made two golden calves. He said to the people, “You don’t have to go to Jerusalem to worship anymore. Israel, these are the gods that brought you out of Egypt.^[a]” ²⁹King Jeroboam put one golden calf in Bethel and the other one in the city of Dan.^[b] ³⁰What a terrible sin this was, because the Israelites started going to the cities of Dan and Bethel^[c] to worship the calves.

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Footnotes

1 Kings 12:28 Israel … out of Egypt This is exactly the same thing that Aaron said at the time he made the golden calf in the desert. See Ex. 32:4.
1 Kings 12:29 Bethel, Dan Bethel was a city in the southern part of Israel, near Judah. Dan was in the northern part of Israel.
1 Kings 12:30 and Bethel This is from the ancient Greek version.