16 I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.

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He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate(A) the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver.”[a] So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver,[b] and it was in Micah’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:3 Or image and a cast image
  2. Judges 17:4 Or image and a cast image

28 So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God[a] who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:28 Or here are your gods

18 Even after they had cast an image of a calf
for themselves and said,
“This is your God who brought you out of Egypt,”(A)
and they had committed terrible blasphemies,

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19 At Horeb they made a calf
and worshiped the cast metal image.(A)

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41 They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.(A)

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