1 Kings 14:9
And thou hast done more evil than all that were before thee; and thou art gone and hast made unto thyself other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and me hast thou cast behind thy back:
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Exodus 34:17Thou shalt not make unto thyself any molten gods.
Deuteronomy 9:8Also at Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 32:16They incensed him with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.
Judges 5:8They chose new gods, then was there war in the gates: was there a shield seen or a spear among forty thousand in Israel?
1 Kings 13:33After this event Jerobo'am returned not from his evil way; but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high-places: whosoever desired it, he consecrated, that he might become one of the priests of the high-places.
1 Kings 14:22And Judah did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and they moved him to wrath more than all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:8-21
The Ruin of Jeroboam's House Foretold; Abijah's Character and Death. ( b. c. 960.) 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee:… Read the whole commentary →