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1 Kings 12:28

After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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ASV

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto 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.

KJV

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto 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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּוָּעַ֣ץvai.yi.va.'Atzand he took counselH3289 →
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428 →
וַיַּ֕עַשׂvai.Ya.'asand he madeH6213 →
שְׁנֵ֖יshe.NeitwoH8147 →
עֶגְלֵ֣י'eg.Leicalves ofH5695 →
זָהָ֑בza.HavgoldH2091 →
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
אֲלֵהֶ֗ם'a.le.Hemto themH413 →
רַב־rav-[too] muchH7227 →
לָכֶם֙la.Khemfor you
מֵעֲל֣וֹתme.'a.Lotfor going upH5927 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔םye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389 →
הִנֵּ֤הhi.Nehhere!H2009 →
אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙'e.lo.Hei.khagods yourH430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElO IsraelH3478 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
הֶעֱל֖וּךָhe.'e.Lu.khathey brought up youH5927 →
מֵאֶ֥רֶץme.'E.retzfrom [the] land ofH776 →
מִצְרָֽיִם׃mitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714 →

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Exodus 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”2 Chronicles 17:4but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.2 Kings 10:29but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.Exodus 32:8How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”2 Kings 17:16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.2 Chronicles 13:8And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.Hosea 8:4–7They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.2 Chronicles 11:15And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.1 Kings 16:19because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.Ezekiel 23:8She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.Deuteronomy 4:14–18At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.Hosea 10:5–6The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.Exodus 1:10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”Isaiah 30:10They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.Exodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

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