²⁹ However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is, from ^(A)the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan.

²⁸ Therefore the king asked advice, ^(A)made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. ^(B)Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!” ²⁹ And he set up one in ^(C)Bethel, and the other he put in ^(D)Dan. ³⁰ Now this thing became ^(E)a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.

¹⁶ And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, ^(A)who sinned and who made Israel sin.”

^33 (A)After this event Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from every class of people for the high places; whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places. ^34 (B)And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as ^(C)to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.

¹² for before certain men came from James, ^(A)he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing ^[a]those who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

⁹ But ^(A)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become ^(B)a ^[a]stumbling block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not ^(C)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? ¹¹ And ^(D)because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? ¹² But ^(E)when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(F)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

²⁴ So she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?”

And she said, “The head of John the Baptist!”

²⁵ Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

^26 (A)And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her.