1 KINGS 14:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;”
But you have done evil above all that were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back — Jeroboam's idolatry exceeds even earlier apostasy. The phrase וַתַּעַשׂ לְךָ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים (you made other gods) encompasses calf worship and proliferating high places. The phrase וַתַּשְׁלִיכֵנִי אַחֲרֵי גוּם (you cast me behind your back) employs language of personal rejection and contempt—explicit apostasy from covenant.
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