1 Reyes 12:28-30

28 Entonces, siguiendo la recomendación de sus consejeros, el rey hizo dos becerros de oro. Después dijo a la gente:
«Para ustedes es muy complicado ir hasta Jerusalén a adorar. Miren, israelitas, ¡estos son los dioses que los sacaron de Egipto!».

29 Jeroboam colocó uno de los ídolos con forma de becerro en Betel y al otro lo puso en Dan, es decir, en ambos extremos de su reino.

30 Esto llegó a ser un gran pecado, porque la gente rendía culto a ídolos y viajaba hasta Dan, al norte, para rendir culto al becerro que estaba allí.

1 Reyes 12:28-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 12

This chapter relates Rehoboam's going to Shechem to be made king, and Jeroboam's return from Egypt, 1Ki 12:1,2, the people's request to Rehoboam to be eased of their taxes, as the condition of making him king, 1Ki 12:3,4, his answer to them, after three days, having had the advice both of the old and young men, which latter he followed, and gave in a rough answer, 1Ki 12:5-15, upon which ten tribes revolted from him, and two abode by him, 1Ki 12:16-20, wherefore he meditated a war against the ten tribes, but was forbid by the Lord to engage in it, 1Ki 12:21-24 and Jeroboam, in order to establish his kingdom, and preserve the people from a revolt to the house of David, because of the temple worship at Jerusalem, devised a scheme of idolatrous worship in his own territories, 1Ki 12:25-33.