And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
After this thing Jeroboam did not turn back from his evil way, but turned and made from the ends of the people priests of the high places; he who desired he filled his hand and he was one of the priests of the high places.
and you did evil more than all who have been before you, and went and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger; and you have cast Me behind your back.
And now you think to be strong against the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David. And you are a great host; yea, with you are calves of gold that Jeroboam has made as gods to you.
Have you not thrown out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made priests to yourselves like the peoples of the lands? Whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull, a son of the herd, and seven rams, even he becomes a priest to no-gods.
And now they sin more and more, and they have made themselves a molten image of their silver, idols according to their understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Men who sacrifice, let them kiss calves.
And they shall not sacrifice their sacrifices any more to goats, after which they have gone whoring. This is a perpetual statute to them throughout their generations.
For they are spirits of demons doing signs, which go forth to the kings of the earth, even of the whole inhabited earth to assemble them to the war of that day, the great day of God Almighty.