28 After consultation, the king made two golden calves+ and said to the people: “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here is your God, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”+ 29 Then he placed one in Bethʹel,+ and the other he put in Dan.+ 30 And this caused them to sin,+ and the people went as far as Dan to worship the one there.

25 Indeed, there has never been anyone like Aʹhab,+ who was so determined* to do what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah, egged on by his wife Jezʹe·bel.+ 26 He acted in the most detestable way by going after the disgusting idols,* just as all the Amʹor·ites had done, whom Jehovah drove out from before the Israelites.’”+