1 Kings 12:28-30

Contemporary English Version

^28 (A) Jeroboam asked for advice and then made two gold statues of calves. He showed them to the people and said, “Listen everyone! You won't have to go to Jerusalem to worship anymore. Here are your gods^[a] who rescued you from Egypt.” ²⁹ Then he put one of the gold calves in the town of Bethel and the other in the town of Dan. ³⁰ The people sinned because they started going to these places to worship.