1 Kings 12:29

JPS Old Testament

And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He set up one in Bethel, and put the other in Dan.

Hebrew Names Version
He set the one in Beit-El, and the other put he in Dan.

King James Version
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

English Standard Version
And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

New Century Version
Jeroboam put one golden calf in the city of Bethel and the other in the city of Dan.

New English Translation
He put one in Bethel and the other in Dan.

Amplified Bible
He set the one [golden calf] in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

New American Standard Bible
And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other set he in Dan.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he set one in Bethel, and one he put in Dan.

Contemporary English Version
Then he put one of the gold calves in the town of Bethel. He put the other one in the town of Dan, and the crowd walked out in front as the calf was taken there. What Jeroboam did was a terrible sin.

Complete Jewish Bible
He placed one in Beit-El and the other in Dan,

Darby Translation
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Easy-to-Read Version
King Jeroboam put one golden calf in Bethel and the other one in the city of Dan.

George Lamsa Translation
And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other he put in Dan.

Good News Translation
He placed one of the gold bull-calves in Bethel and the other in Dan.

Lexham English Bible
He put one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Literal Translation
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the one set he at Bethel, & the other in Dan.

American Standard Version
And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.

Bible in Basic English
And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other set he in Dan.

King James Version (1611)
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he put one in Bethel, and he put the other in Dan.

English Revised Version
And he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan.

Berean Standard Bible
One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he settide oon in Bethel, and the tother in Dan.

Young's Literal Translation
And he setteth the one in Beth-El, and the other he hath put in Dan,

Update Bible Version
And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other he put in Dan.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other he placed in Dan.

World English Bible
He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

New King James Version
And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

New Living Translation
He placed these calf idols in Bethel and in Dan—at either end of his kingdom.

New Life Bible
He put one in Bethel, and the other in Dan.

New Revised Standard
He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he set the one in Bethel, - and, the other, put he in Dan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other in Dan:

Revised Standard Version
And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel. ²⁶ And Jeroboam said in his heart: 'Now will the kingdom return to the house of David. ²⁷ If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn back unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.' ²⁸ Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them: 'Ye have gone up long enough to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' ²⁹ And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. ³⁰ And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. ³¹ And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi. ³² And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, to sacrifice unto the calves that he had made; and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made. ³³ And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to offer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bethel: Genesis 12:8, Genesis 28:19, Genesis 35:1, Hosea 4:15

Dan: Genesis 14:14, Deuteronomy 34:1, Judges 18:29-31, Judges 20:1, 2 Kings 10:29, Jeremiah 8:16, Amos 8:14

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:22 - Bethel 1 Samuel 30:27 - Bethel 1 Kings 13:32 - the houses 1 Kings 15:20 - Dan 1 Kings 15:34 - walked 2 Kings 2:2 - Bethel 2 Kings 17:28 - in Bethel 2 Kings 23:4 - Bethel Jeremiah 48:13 - as the Ezekiel 48:1 - Dan Hosea 5:8 - Bethaven Amos 7:13 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he set the one in Bethel,.... In the southern part of the land, on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin; and the rather he chose this place, because its name signifies the house of God, and had been a sacred place, where Jacob more than once enjoyed the divine Presence:

and the other put he in Dan: in the northern part of the land, for the convenience of the inhabitants of those parts; and the rather, since it had been a place resorted to in former times, because of the teraphim of Micah there.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the first place, Jeroboam consulted the convenience of his subjects, who would thus in no case have very far to go in order to reach one or the other sanctuary. Further, he avoided the danger of reminding them continually that they had no ark - a danger which would have been imminent, had the two cherubs been placed together in one shrine.

He selected Bethel (in the south) for one of his seats of worship, on account of its pre-eminent sanctity. (See the marginal reference; Judges 20:26-28; 1 Samuel 7:16.)

The north of Palestine did not furnish a spot possessing an equally sacred character, but still Dan had to some extent the character of a “holy city” (marginal reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. One in Beth-el, and the other - in Dan. — One at the southern and the other at the northern extremity of the land. Solomon's idolatry had prepared the people for Jeroboam's abominations!