1 Kings 12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Note d'étude
Study Note
Jeroboam's proclamation 'behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt' upon installing the golden calves at Bethel and Dan echoes Aaron's declaration in Exodus 32:4 — a deliberate literary connection that frames the northern kingdom's founding sin as a repetition of the Sinai apostasy. The dual shrine strategy — Bethel in the south of Israel and Dan in the north — was politically calculated to prevent the northern tribes from traveling to Jerusalem for the festivals and thereby transferring loyalty back to the Davidic dynasty. The Deuteronomistic Historian uses this episode as the paradigmatic sin against which every subsequent northern king is measured: 'the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin' becomes a formulaic evaluation repeated throughout 1-2 Kings.
Autres traductions
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And the king taketh counsel, and maketh two calves of gold, and saith unto them, `Enough to you of going up to Jerusalem; lo, thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'
So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
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