1 Kings 12:29

12:29 He put one in Bethel ¹  and the other in Dan.

1 Kings 13:11

13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. ²  When his sons came home, they told their father ³  everything the prophet ⁴  had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king. ⁵ 

1 Kings 13:10

13:10 So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

1 Kings 12:32

12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, ⁶  like the festival celebrated in Judah. ⁷  On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. ⁸  In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

1 Kings 13:1

13:1 Just then ⁹  a prophet ¹⁰  from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, ¹¹  as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ¹²  against the altar in Bethel ¹³  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ¹⁴  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Kings 12:33

A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel

12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) ¹⁵  Jeroboam ¹⁶  offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. ¹⁷  He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

1 Kings 13:4

13:4 When the king heard what the prophet ¹⁸  cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand ¹⁹  and ordered, ²⁰  “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up ²¹  and he could not pull it back.

1 Kings 12:30

12:30 This caused Israel to sin; ²²  the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves. ²³ 

1 Kings 16:34

16:34 During Ahab’s reign, ²⁴  Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. ²⁵  Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; ²⁶  Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, ²⁷  just as the Lord had warned ²⁸  through Joshua son of Nun. ²⁹ 

1 Kings 13:25

13:25 Some men came by ³⁰  and saw the corpse lying in the road with the lion standing beside it. ³¹  They went and reported what they had seen ³²  in the city where the old prophet lived.

[12:29]  ¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:11]  ² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:11]  ³ tn Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13.

[13:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”

[12:32]  ³ sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.

[12:32]  ⁴ sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.

[12:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”

[13:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.

[13:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “came by the word of the Lord to Bethel.”

[13:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ⁶ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[12:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

[12:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:33]  ⁸ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”

[13:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[13:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”

[12:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “and this thing became a sin.”

[12:30]  ⁹ tc The MT reads “and the people went before the one to Dan.” It is likely that some words have been accidentally omitted and that the text originally said, “and the people went before the one at Bethel and before the one at Dan.”

[16:34]  ⁹ tn Heb “in his days.”

[16:34]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[16:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “with Abiram, his firstborn, he founded it.”

[16:34]  ¹² tn Heb “with Segub, his youngest, he set up its gates.”

[16:34]  ¹³ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

[16:34]  ¹⁴ sn Warned through Joshua son of Nun. For the background to this statement, see Josh 6:26, where Joshua pronounces a curse on the one who dares to rebuild Jericho. Here that curse is viewed as a prophecy spoken by God through Joshua.

[13:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look, men were passing by.”

[13:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:25]  ¹² tn The words “what they had seen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.