²⁸ Therefore the king asked advice, ^(A)made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. ^(B)Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!”

⁹ but you have done more evil than all who were before you, ^(A)for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and ^(B)have cast Me behind your back—

^15 (A)Then he appointed for himself priests for the ^[a]high places, for ^(B)the demons, and ^(C)the calf idols which he had made.