In Context

23 |Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,

24 'Thus says Yahweh, |You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is of me.|'| So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.

25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

26 Jeroboam said in his heart, |Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

27 If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.|

28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, |It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!|

1 Kings 12:26 in Other Translations