1-kings 12:30
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
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.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
Definitions for 1-kings 12:30
Barnes's 1-kings 12:30 Bible Commentary
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."
Wesley's 1-kings 12:30 Bible Commentary
12:30 A sin — That is, an occasion of great wickedness, not only of idolatry, which is called sin by way of eminency; nor only of the worship of the calves, wherein they pretended to worship the true God; but also of the worship of Baal, and of the utter desertion of the true God; and of all sorts of impiety.
To Dan — Which is not here mentioned exclusively, for they went also to Beth-el, verse 32,33, but for other reasons, either because that of Dan was first made, the people in those parts having been long leavened with idolatry, Judges 18:30, or to shew the peoples readiness and zeal for idols; that those who lived in, or near Beth-el, had not patience to stay 'till that calf was finished, but all of them were forward to go as far as Dan, which was in the utmost borders of the land, to worship an idol there; when it was thought too much for them to go to Jerusalem to worship God.
