1 Kings 12:30
This thing became a sin, for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
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1 Kings 12:30
This thing became a sin, for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
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1 Kings 12:28
So 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. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
1 Kings 12:31
He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
1 Kings 12:32
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
1 Kings 12:33
He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense.
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”
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1 Kings 12:26
Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.
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1 Kings 12:27
If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
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Hosea 8:5
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
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Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
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