28 So the king took counsel and made two ucalves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. vBehold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
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2 Kings 10:29
But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.
2 Kings 17:16
And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
2 Chronicles 11:15
and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.
2 Chronicles 13:8
“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 the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.
Exodus 32:4
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
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