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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE
KINGS
COMMONLY CALLED
THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
CHAPTER 17
  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.

Footnotes
16a
1 Kgs. 12: 28.
  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.
b
Deut. 16: 21.
  21 ¶ aThou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
c
2 Kgs. 21: 3.
  3 For he built up again the ahigh places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a bgrove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the chost of heaven, and served them.
d
Hosea 11: 2 (1-4).
  2 As they called them, so they went from them: they asacrificed unto bBaalim, and burned incense to graven images.