1 Kings 12:29

29. Beth-el… Dan Since one of the objects he professed to seek was the convenience of the people, two places of worship would of course be better than one Beth-el in the southern and Dan in the northern part of the kingdom. Perhaps, also, here was a still closer imitation of the Egyptian calf-worship, in that the two calves might resemble, the one Apis, who was worshipped at Memphis, and the other Mne, who was worshipped at On. There was reason, and policy too, in fixing on Beth-el and Dan. The one was consecrated in the traditions of the people as the place where God appeared to Jacob, and that patriarch had himself called it the house of God. Genesis 28:11-22. There, too, the people had formerly been wont to go up to worship God. 1 Samuel 10:3. And at Dan the teraphim of Micah had been set up, and a religious service established in connexion with it in the days of the judges. Judges 18:30.