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1 Kings 12:30
1 Kings 12:30 is verse 30 of 1 Kings chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
Likely reading of the original Hebrew text; MT the people walked to the one as far as Dan; LXX the people went to the one at Bethel and to the other as far as Dan
King James Version
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
World English Bible
This thing became a sin, for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
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1 Kings 12:28–32 · Berean Standard Bible
28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
29 One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
31 Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 13:34And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
2 Kings 10:31Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
2 Kings 17:21When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.