The high place at Dan
A major state sanctuary stood at Dan in the period of the northern kingdom, on the scale of a royal cult centre.
Fakapapau'i 'e he keliFeitu'u kuo keli9th century BC
A large open-air platform of dressed stone with a monumental stairway and an altar precinct, at the northern edge of Israel. 1 Kings says Jeroboam set up a golden calf at Bethel and another at Dan, and "made an house of high places".
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Tel Dan, northern Israel, 1966 — Avraham Biran's excavation
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- In place, Tel Dan Nature Reserve
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
The platform is a sanctuary; no inscription names Jeroboam or a calf. The identification with the biblical cult centre rests on place, date and scale.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
A standard site for Israelite religion and royal cult architecture.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Biran, Biblical Dan (1994)
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.