1 Kings 12:28
28So the king took counsel and amade two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. bBehold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”1 Kings 12:32
32And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like cthe feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel dthe priests of the high places that he had made.2 Kings 10:29
29But Jehu did not turn aside from ethe sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, fwhich he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.2 Chronicles 11:15
15and he appointed his own gpriests for the high places and for the goat idols and for hthe calves that he had made.2 Chronicles 13:8
8“And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you ithe golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.Hosea 8:4-5
4 jThey made kings, kbut not through me.They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
5 lI have ▼
▼Hebrew He has
spurned your calf, O Samaria.My anger burns against them.
nHow long will they be incapable of innocence?
Hosea 10:5
5The inhabitants of Samaria tremblefor othe calf ▼
▼Or calves
of qBeth-aven.Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and rover its glory—
for it has departed ▼
▼Or has gone into exile
from them.Hosea 13:2
2And now they sin more and more,and tmake for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
uall of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice vkiss calves!”
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