Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Took counsel
Two calves of gold
It is too much
Behold
General references
Bible References
Took counsel
1 Kings 12:8
But he forsook the advice of the old men which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up with him, that stood before him.
Exodus 1:10
Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, if war occur, they take side with our enemies and fight against us, and go up out of the land.
Isaiah 30:1
Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;
Two calves of gold
Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
Deuteronomy 4:14
And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.
2 Kings 10:29
Only, the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, from them Jehu departed not: from the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
2 Kings 17:16
And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;
2 Chronicles 11:15
and he ordained for himself priests for the high places, and for the he-goats and for the calves that he had made.
Hosea 8:4
They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the idolatrous priests thereof shall tremble for it, for its glory, because it is departed from it.
It is too much
Isaiah 30:10
who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits;
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
Behold
Exodus 32:4
And he took them out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!
General references
Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
Leviticus 13:29
And if a man or a woman have a sore on the head or on the beard,
Job 34:30
That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.
Isaiah 44:10
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?