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 paid no attention to the opinion of the elders. He went to the young men who were his advisors:
Exodus 1:10
We must outsmart them or they will increase in number. If war breaks out they will leave the country and join our enemies to fight against us.
Isaiah 30:1
Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.
Two calves of gold
Exodus 20:4
Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.
Deuteronomy 4:14
Jehovah told me to teach you all the laws that you are to obey in the land that you are about to invade and occupy.
2 Kings 10:29
But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do. The gold calves were still worshiped in Bethel and in Dan.
2 Kings 17:16
They broke all the laws of Jehovah their God. They made two metal bull-calves to worship. They also made an image of the goddess Asherah. Also they worshiped the stars and served the god Baal.
2 Chronicles 11:15
As an alternative, Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the illegal worship sites and the goat and calf statues he had made as idols.
Hosea 8:4
They chose their own kings. I did not approve. They chose their own princes. Princes I did not know. They made idols with their own silver and gold. Because of this, they will be destroyed!
Hosea 10:5
The people who live in the city of Samaria will be afraid and will mourn the loss of the gold bull at Bethaven. They and the priests who serve the idol will weep over it. They will wail when it is stripped of its golden splendor.
It is too much
Isaiah 30:10
They say to the seers: Do not see the future. They say to those who have visions: 'Do not have visions that tell us what is right. Tell us what we want to hear. Prophesy illusions.
2 Peter 2:19
They promise them freedom, while they are bondservants of corruption. A man is brought into bondage by one and enslaved by another.
Behold
Exodus 32:4
After he worked on the gold with a tool, he made it into a statue of a calf. Then they said: Israel, this is your god, who brought you out of Egypt.
General references
Exodus 20:4
Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.
Leviticus 13:29
When any of you, male or female, have a sore on your head or chin,
Job 34:30
There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.
Isaiah 44:10
Who shapes a god and casts a useless and good for nothing idol.