1 Kings 12:28-32
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.” 29And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 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
31He also made etemples on high places and fappointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. 32And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like gthe 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 hthe priests of the high places that he had made. 2 Kings 10:29
29But Jehu did not turn aside from ithe sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, jwhich he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.2 Kings 17:16
16And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ktwo calves; and they lmade an Asherah and mworshiped all the host of heaven and served nBaal.2 Chronicles 11:15
15and he appointed his own opriests for the high places and for the goat idols and for pthe 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 qthe golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.Hosea 8:5-6
5 rI have ▼▼Hebrew He has
spurned your calf, O Samaria.My anger burns against them.
tHow long will they be incapable of innocence?
6For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
uThe calf of Samaria
vshall be broken to pieces. ▼
▼Or shall go up in flames
Hosea 13:2
2And now they sin more and more,and xmake for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
yall of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice zkiss calves!”
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