1 Kings 12:28-30

Jeroboam's Golden Calves

28 So the king took counsel and d made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. e Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt." 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 Then f this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one. 1

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  2. Cross References
    Exodus 32:4
    And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
    Exodus 32:8
    They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 13:34
    And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.
    2 Kings 17:21
    When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord and made them commit great sin.
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