◄ 1 Kings 12:30 ►
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Good News Translation
And so the people sinned, going to worship in Bethel and in Dan.

New Revised Standard Version
And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one at Bethel and before the other as far as Dan.

Contemporary English Version
The people sinned because they started going to these places to worship.

New American Bible
This led to sin, because the people frequented these calves in Bethel and in Dan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.

became a sin

1 Kings 13:34 And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off, and destroyed from the face of the earth.

2 Kings 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 17:21 Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.

Context
Jeroboam's Idolatry
…29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan: 30And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.31And he made temples in the high places, and priests of the lowest of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.…
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34
And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off, and destroyed from the face of the earth.

1 Kings 14:16
And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 21:22
And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast done to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.

2 Kings 17:21
Even from that time, when Israel was rent from the house of David, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king: for Jeroboam separated Israel from the Lord, and made them commit a great sin.

Isaiah 31:7
For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin.

1 Kings 12:29
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