²⁸ So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, ‘Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here are your gods^[a] who brought you up from the land of Egypt.’^{(A) 29} He set up one in Bethel,^(B) and put the other in Dan.^{(C) 30} This led to sin;^(D) the people walked in procession before one of the calves all the way to Dan.^[b](E)

³⁴ This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be cut off and obliterated from the face of the earth.^(A)