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I Kings 12: The New King is a Cow-ard
The new king is faced with an early dilemma. What will happen when holiday season rolls around and the people return to the Temple to worship? Sensing there is a problem, Jeroboam decides to look back into Israelite history and copy the greatest sin of the generation of the wilderness by building not one but two Golden Calves. The text in chapter 12goes out of its way to compare the two stories. “So the king took counsel and made two golden calves. He said to the people…‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt’” (וַיִּוָּעַץ הַמֶּלֶךְ וַיַּעַשׂשְׁנֵי עֶגְלֵי…
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