(A)And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for (B)the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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28 So the king took counsel and (A)made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. (B)Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 Then (C)this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:30 Septuagint went to the one at Bethel and to the other as far as Dan

31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (A)he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the (B)Sidonians, (C)and went and served Baal and worshiped him. 32 He erected an altar for Baal in (D)the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made an (E)Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger (F)than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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