1 KINGS 12:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan.”
And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan — Bethel and Dan stand at opposite ends of Israel's territory, making Jeroboam's religious innovation geographically comprehensive. Bethel, site of Jacob's ladder vision (Genesis 28:12), carries immense covenantal significance and becomes a pilgrimage center rivaling Jerusalem. Dan, in the far north, extends Jeroboam's religious authority to Israel's furthest reaches. The parallel installation of both calves suggests not spontaneous syncretism but deliberate architectural theology, a schismatic religion designed to bind the northern kingdom internally.
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