²⁸ King Jeroboam asked for advice. Then he made two golden calves [^Con the model of Aaron’s calf; Ex. 32]. “It is too ·long a journey [much] for you to go to Jerusalem [^Cto worship],” he said to the people. “Israel, here are your gods [or this is your God; ^Cit is possible that the image was associated with the false worship of the true God] who brought you out of Egypt.”