in Beth-el The well-known city in the extreme south of the tribe of Ephraim, and so just on the southern border of the new kingdom of Israel.

in Dan The town, formerly called Laish, in the very north of Palestine, and always mentioned as a limit of the land in the phrase -from Dan to Beersheba." It was so remote from the influence of the rest of the nation that its inhabitants lived -after the manner of the Zidonians." They were, that is, sea-faring people, rather than shepherds and husbandmen like the rest of their brethren. The places chosen by Jeroboam were at either limit of his kingdom, and had been associated with religious worship in ancient times. See Judges 18:30; Judges 20:18; Judges 20:26; 1 Samuel 10:3.

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