1 Kings 12:30
“And this thing became a sinne: for the people went to worship before the one, euen vnto Dan.”
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1 Kings 12:30 Context
28Whereupon the king tooke counsell, and made two calues of gold, and said vnto them, It is too much for you to goe vp to Ierusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt. 29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30And this thing became a sinne: for the people went to worship before the one, euen vnto Dan. 31And he made an house of hie places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui. 32And Ieroboam ordeined a feast in the eight moneth, on the fifteenth day of the moneth, like vnto the feast that is in Iudah, and he offered vpon the altar (so did he in Bethel,) sacrificing vnto the calues that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
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Other Translations for 1 Kings 12:30
And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to worship] before the one, [even] unto Dan.
- King James Version
Now this thing became a sin, for the people went {to worship} before the one as far as Dan.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And this thing became a sin; for the people went `to worship' before the one, even unto Dan.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.
- Basic English Bible
And this thing became a sin; and the people went [to worship] before the one, as far as Dan.
- Darby Bible
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan.
- Webster's Bible
This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.
- World English Bible
and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one -- unto Dan.
- Youngs Literal Bible
And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Kings 12:30
12:30 A sin - That is, an occasion of great wickedness, not only ofidolatry, which is called sin by way of eminency; nor only of theworship of the calves, wherein they pretended to worship the true God; butalso of the worship of Baal, and of the utter desertion of the true God;and of all sorts of impiety. To Dan - Which is not here mentionedexclusively, for they went also to Beth - el, ver.#32|,33, but forother reasons, either because that of Dan was first made, the people inthose parts having been long leavened with idolatry, #Judg 18:30|, or toshew the peoples readiness and zeal for idols; that those who lived in, ornear Beth - el, had not patience to stay 'till that calf was finished, butall of them were forward to go as far as Dan, which was in the utmostborders of the land, to worship an idol there; when it was thought too muchfor them to go to Jerusalem to worship God.