1 Kings 12:28

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

• וַיִּוָּעַ֣ץand he took counsel

  vaiyivaatzH3289 →79 times

• הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

  hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

• וַיַּ֕עַשׂand he made

  vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

• שְׁנֵ֖יtwo

  sheneiH8147 →768 times

• עֶגְלֵ֣יcalves of

  ʾegleiH5695 →

• זָהָ֑בgold

  zahavH2091 →389 times

• וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

  vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

• אֲלֵהֶ֗םto them

  ʾalehemH413 →5510 times

• רַב־[too] much

  rav-H7227 →454 times

• לָכֶם֙for you

  lakhem

• מֵעֲל֣וֹתfor going up

  mealotH5927 →890 times

• יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔םJerusalem

  yerushalimH3389 →643 times

• הִנֵּ֤הhere!

  hinehH2009 →843 times

• אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙gods your

  ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

• יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לO Israel

  yisraelH3478 →2507 times

• אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• הֶעֱל֖וּךָthey brought up you

  heelukhaH5927 →890 times

• מֵאֶ֥רֶץfrom [the] land of

  meeretzH776 →2504 times

• מִצְרָֽיִם׃Egypt

  mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

• Through

  Exodus 32:4

  He 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…

  it leads to

  • Deuteronomy 9:16

    And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

    Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Nehemiah 9:18

    Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

  • Acts 7:41

    At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Exodus 32:8

    How 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,…

• Through

  2 Kings 10:29

  but 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.

  it leads to

  • 1 Kings 12:28–30

    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…

• Through

  2 Kings 17:16

  They 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…

  it leads to

  • 1 Kings 16:31

    And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then…

  • 1 Kings 14:15

    For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the…

• Through

  Exodus 32:8

  How 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,…

  it leads to

  • Exodus 20:23

    You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.