1 Kings 12:27

Jeroboam Becomes King Over Israel

²⁶ Jeroboam said to himself, “The way things are going now, the kingdom might return to the house of David. ²⁷ If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, the heart of these people will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will murder me and go back to the king of Judah.” ²⁸ So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”

Going Up to Jerusalem

House of the Lord

In Me

King of Judah

Offer Sacrifice

Offer Sacrifices

Temple of the Lord

To the Lord

Jehovah

Jerusalem

Judah

Rehoboam

Deuteronomy 12:5-7

Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

Deuteronomy 12:14

You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.

Genesis 12:12-13

When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me but let you live.

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice to Yahweh your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have His name dwell.

Deuteronomy 16:6

You must only sacrifice the Passover animal at the place where Yahweh your God chooses to have His name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.

1 Kings 8:29-30

so that Your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,
toward the place where You said:
My name will be there,
and so that You may hear the prayer
that Your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8:44

When Your people go out to fight against their enemies,
wherever You send them,
and they pray to Yahweh
in the direction of the city You have chosen
and the temple I have built for Your name,

1 Kings 11:32

but one tribe will remain his because of my servant David and because of Jerusalem, the city I chose out of all the tribes of Israel.

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man is a snare,
but the one who trusts in the Lord is protected.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.