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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE
KINGS
COMMONLY CALLED
THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
CHAPTER 12
  28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and amade two bcalves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy cgods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Footnotes
28a
2 Kgs. 23: 15.
  15 ¶ Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who amade Israel to sin, had made, both that baltar and the high place he cbrake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
b
2 Kgs. 10: 29.
  29 ¶ Howbeit from the sins of aJeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to bsin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden ccalves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.
2 Kgs. 17: 16.
  16 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two acalves, and made a bgrove, and worshipped all the chost of heaven, and served dBaal.
Hosea 8: 5 (5-7).
  5 ¶ Thy acalf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be bere they attain to innocency?
Hosea 10: 5.
  5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the acalves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
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