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 12:30
30Then cthis thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one. ▼▼Septuagint went to the one at Bethel and to the other as far as Dan
1 Kings 12:33
33He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar eto make offerings.1 Kings 13:33-34
33After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places. 34 fAnd this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, gso as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.1 Kings 16:31-33
31And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, hhe took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the iSidonians, jand went and served Baal and worshiped him. 32He erected an altar for Baal in kthe house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. 33And Ahab made an lAsherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger mthan all the kings of Israel who were before him.2 Kings 8:18
18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for nthe daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.2 Kings 17:19
19 oJudah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.Jeremiah 3:7-8
7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous psister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, qI had sent her away with ra decree of divorce. sYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went tand played the whore.
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