After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These,
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Ashera
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and h
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make thems
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the wate
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served
They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasan
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an allian
Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemie
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous pri
At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are c