1 Kings 12:30

English Standard Version

Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This led to sin; the people walked in procession before one of the calves all the way to Dan.

Hebrew Names Version
This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.

King James Version
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

New Century Version
This became a very great sin, because the people traveled as far as Dan to worship the calf there.

New English Translation
This caused Israel to sin; the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves.

Amplified Bible
Now this thing became a sin [for Israel]; because the people went to worship before the one [or the other of them] as far as Dan.

New American Standard Bible
Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And this thing turned to sinne: for the people went (because of the one) euen to Dan.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.

Complete Jewish Bible
and the affair became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one [in Beit-El and] all the way to Dan [to worship the other].

Darby Translation
And this thing became a sin; and the people went [to worship] before the one, as far as Dan.

Easy-to-Read Version
What a terrible sin this was, because the Israelites started going to the cities of Dan and Bethel to worship the calves.

George Lamsa Translation
And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

Good News Translation
And so the people sinned, going to worship in Bethel and in Dan.

Lexham English Bible
This thing became a sin, and the people walked before the one as far as Dan.

Literal Translation
And this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, to Dan.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And this dede turned to synne, for the people wente before the one vnto Dan.

American Standard Version
And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this thing turned to sinne: for the people went (because of the one) as farre as Dan.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

King James Version (1611)
And this thing became a sinne: for the people went to worship before the one, euen vnto Dan.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord.

English Revised Version
And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to worship] before the one, even unto Dan.

Berean Standard Bible
And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And this word was maad to Israel in to synne; for the puple yede til in to Dan, to worschipe the calf.

Young's Literal Translation
and this thing becometh a sin, and the people go before the one -- unto Dan.

Update Bible Version
And this thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.

Webster's Bible Translation
And this thing became a sin: for the people went [to worship] before the one, [even] to Dan.

World English Bible
This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.

New King James Version
Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.

New Living Translation
But this became a great sin, for the people worshiped the idols, traveling as far north as Dan to worship the one there.

New Life Bible
Now this thing became a sin. For the people went to worship in front of them, even as far as Dan.

New Revised Standard
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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And this thing became a sin, - and the people went before the one, as far as Dan.

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

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel. ²⁶ And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David. ²⁷ If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah." ²⁸ So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. 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 this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one. ³¹ He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. ³² And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. ³³ He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

became a sin: 1 Kings 13:34, 2 Kings 10:31, 2 Kings 17:21

Reciprocal: Judges 18:29 - Dan 1 Kings 14:16 - who did sin 2 Chronicles 17:4 - not after Acts 4:19 - to hearken

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this thing became a sin,.... The cause and occasion of the sin of idolatry; it led them by degrees to leave off the worship of God, and to worship these calves as gods:

for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan; which was the furthest off, such was their great zeal for idolatrous worship; or they went thither before that at Bethel was set up; and even they at Bethel would go as far as Dan to worship, such was their veneration for both the calves. Abarbinel is of opinion that these calves were not made by Jeroboam for idolatrous uses, only the altar later mentioned; and that he never worshipped before them, nor sacrificed to them, nor even built the altar before them; but that these were set up as signs, and in memory of his kingdom, like the pillars in Solomon's temple; that he chose the calf or ox as emblems of his family, the family of Joseph, Deuteronomy 33:17 two to represent Ephraim and Manasseh; golden ones, to denote the majesty and perpetuity of his kingdom; and he set these, the one at Bethel, at the entrance of it, and the other at Dan, at the further borders of it; and that he did not call those gods, but the only true God, as he that brought Israel out of Egypt; only signified by that expression, that he was everywhere, there as well as at Jerusalem; but that the Israelites, who were taken with sensible objects, on visiting these out of curiosity, it became a snare to them, and they fell into the worship of them; just as Gideon's ephod, and Moses' brasen serpent, were unto them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This thing became a sin - i. e., this act of Jeroboam’s became an occasion of sin to the people. The author perhaps wrote the following words thus: “The people went to worship before the one to Bethel and before the other to Dan.”