1 Kings 12:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, It is too much for you to go [all the way] up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he 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.

Common English Bible

²⁸ So the king asked for advice and then made two gold calves. He said to the people, “It’s too far for you to go all the way up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel! Here are your gods who brought you out from the land of Egypt.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And devising a plan, he made two golden calves. And he said to them: "No longer choose to ascend to Jerusalem. Behold, these are your gods, O Israel, who led you away from the land of Egypt!"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And finding out a device he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 12:28 Cross References

1 Kings 14:9

but you have done evil above all those who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast images, provoking me to anger, and have thrust me behind your back,

1 Kings 15:26

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of his ancestor and in the sin that he caused Israel to commit.

1 Kings 16:19

because of the sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for the sin that he committed, causing Israel to sin.

2 Kings 10:29

But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat that he caused Israel to commit: the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.

2 Kings 17:16

They rejected all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:8

and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel and in the customs that the kings of Israel had introduced.

2 Chronicles 11:14

The Levites had left their pasturelands and possessions and had come to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had prevented them from serving as priests of the Lord

2 Chronicles 11:15

and had appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat-demons and for the calves that he had made.

2 Chronicles 13:8

“And now you think that you can withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made as gods for you.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law,

2 Chronicles 17:4

but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments and not according to the ways of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:6

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:7

The carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;

Exodus 1:10

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

Exodus 20:4

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

Exodus 32:25

When Moses saw that the people were out of control (for Aaron had lost control of them, prompting derision among their enemies),

Exodus 32:4

He took these from them, formed them in a mold, and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:8

they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan but not mine; who make an alliance but against my will, adding sin to sin;

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;

Ezekiel 16:26

You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 23:8

She did not give up her prostitutions that she had practiced since Egypt, for in her youth men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

Daniel 3:1

King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue whose height was sixty cubits and whose width was six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Hosea 10:10

I will come against the wayward people to punish them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are punished for their double iniquity.

Hosea 10:8

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars. They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

Amos 5:5

but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba, for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall and never rise again.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

1 Samuel 27:1

David said in his heart, “I shall certainly perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”