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.

³ 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 and a silver idol.^[a] I will give it back to you.” ⁴ 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 and a silver idol, and it was in Micah’s house.

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 are your gods^[a] who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”^(A)

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