1 Kings 12:30

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

This caused Israel to sin; the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 13:34 : 34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.
  • 2 Kgs 17:21 : 21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from the LORD and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.
  • 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the LORD God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:28-29
    2 verses
    83%

    28After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,“It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

    29He put one in Bethel and the other in Dan.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31-33
    3 verses
    76%

    31He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.

    32Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival celebrated in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

    33A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel On the fifteenth day of the eighth month(a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Judg 18:29-31
    3 verses
    74%

    29They named it Dan after their ancestor, who was one of Israel’s sons. But the city’s name used to be Laish.

    30The Danites worshiped the carved image. Jonathan, descendant of Gershom, son of Moses, and his descendants served as priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the exile.

    31They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.

  • 1 Kgs 13:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

    34This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.

    17They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.

  • Hos 8:11
    70%

    11Sacrifices Ineffective without Moral Obedience Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning!

  • Num 25:2
    70%

    2These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
    70%

    21He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from the LORD and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.

  • Hos 13:2
    70%

    2Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them:“Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    70%

    32At the same time they worshiped the LORD. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

  • Deut 17:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3by serving other gods and worshiping them– the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.

    4When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done in Israel,

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    70%

    15He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.

  • Judg 2:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11A Monotonous Cycle The Israelites did evil before the LORD by worshiping the Baals.

    12They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.

  • 1 Kgs 14:9
    69%

    9You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.

  • 2 Chr 11:15
    69%

    15Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    69%

    29But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

  • Deut 12:31
    69%

    31You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

  • Amos 8:14
    69%

    14These are the ones who now take oaths in the name of the sinful idol goddess of Samaria. They vow,‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or‘As surely as your beloved one lives, O Beer Sheba!’ But they will fall down and not get up again.”

  • Hos 11:2
    69%

    2But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 10:29
    69%

    29A Summary of Jehu’s Reign However, Jehu did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had encouraged Israel to commit; the golden calves remained in Bethel and Dan.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    69%

    7He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    69%

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    69%

    12Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the LORD’s high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem,“At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”

  • Acts 7:41-42
    2 verses
    69%

    41At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

    42But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

  • Exod 32:8
    69%

    8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    68%

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    68%

    11“King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
    68%

    7Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    68%

    32He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    68%

    23They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • 2 Kgs 21:5
    68%

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    68%

    8they observed the practices of the nations whom the LORD had driven out from before them, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.

  • Ps 106:19
    68%

    19They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
    68%

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    68%

    7He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    68%

    26He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; they angered the LORD God of Israel with their worthless idols.