1 Kings 12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
Cross References
Exodus 1:10Come, let us deal craftily with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when war happens, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.
Exodus 32:4And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf. And they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:14And LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it.
1 Kings 12:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.
2 Kings 17:8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom LORD cast out from before the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
2 Chronicles 11:15And he appointed priests for him for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 12:26-33
Jeroboam's Idolatry. ( b. c. 975.) 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made… Read the whole commentary →