2 Chronicles 11:15
Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, for the satyrs (goat demons) and calves (idols) which he had made.
1 Kings 12:28
So the king took counsel [and followed bad advice] and made two
1 Kings 12:31
And Jeroboam also made houses on high places, and he made priests from
1 Kings 13:33
After this event, Jeroboam [still] did not turn from his evil way, but again made priests for the high places from among all the people. He ordained anyone who was willing, so that there would be priests for the high places.
Exodus 32:4-8
And he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten
Exodus 32:31
So Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin [against You], and have made themselves a god of gold.
Deuteronomy 32:17
“They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods whom they have not known,
New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers never feared.
1 Kings 14:9
but have done more evil than all [the
Psalm 106:19-20
They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)
And worshiped a cast image.
Hosea 8:5-6
He has rejected your [pagan] calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My wrath burns against them.”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Hosea 13:2
And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them],
All of them the work of the craftsmen.
They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”
1 Corinthians 10:20-21
On the contrary, the things which the Gentiles (pagans) sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons [in effect], and not to God; and I do not want you to become partners with demons [by eating at feasts in pagan temples].
1 Timothy 4:1
But the [Holy] Spirit explicitly and unmistakably declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, paying attention instead to deceitful and seductive spirits and doctrines of demons,
Revelation 16:14
for they are [actually] the spirits of demons, performing [miraculous] signs. And they go out to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
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For the devils
For the calves
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For the devils
For the calves
They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)
And worshiped a cast image.
He has rejected your [pagan] calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My wrath burns against them.”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver [as it pleased them],
All of them the work of the craftsmen.
They say of these [very works of their hands], “Let those who sacrifice kiss and show respect to the calves [as if they were living gods]!”