[This translation omits this verse.]

And the king took counsel, and went, and made two golden heifers, and said to the people, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold, [here are] your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

And after this Jeroboam turned not from his sin, but he turned and made some of the people priests of the [high places]. Whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became a priest for the high places.

And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins, as he caused Israel to sin.

And it was not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, but he took Jezabel the daughter of Ethebaal king of the Sidonians for a wife; and he went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

They provoked Me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered Me.

They sacrificed to demons, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh [gods] came in, whom their fathers knew not.

They have provoked Me to jealousy by [that which is] not God, they have exasperated Me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are not a nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

They chose new gods; then the cities of rulers fought; there was not a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel.

And he made for himself priests of the high places, and for the idols, and for the vanities, and for the calves which Jeroboam made.

And they made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the graven image,

and they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that feeds on grass.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell;

Let those that make them become like them, and all who trust in them.

But they that framed [false gods] did not then hearken; and they that engraved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

and all by whom they were made have withered; yes, let all the deaf be gathered from [among] men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together;

The artificer, having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.

that it might be for men to burn; and having taken part of it he warms himself; yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves on it; and [of] the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.

And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my god.

And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on its coals and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

Such is not the portion of Jacob; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name.

And Rehoboam did evil in the sight of the Lord; and he provoked Him in all the things which their fathers did in their sins which they sinned.

Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you;

And the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain, in the day of the assembly.

And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.

And now I shall utterly destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

And when I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made for yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;

And he built again the high places, which Hezekiah his father [had] demolished, and set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Ahab king of Israel [had made]; and worshipped the whole host of heaven, and served them.

Nevertheless the Lord turned not from the fierceness of His great anger, wherewith He was wroth in His anger against Judah, because of the provocations, with which Manasseh provoked Him.

He also passed his children through the fire in the valley of the Son of Hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorceries, and appointed those who had divining spirits, and enchanters, and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord, to provoke Him.

How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, [and] anger Him in a dry land!

Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and kept not His testimonies.

and destruction was multiplied among them.

and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you know not,

so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before Me in the house which is called by My name, and you have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.

And He stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Purchaser.

And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen this. [Is it] a trivial thing to the house of Judah to practice the iniquities which they have practiced here? For they have filled the land with iniquity; and behold, these are as scorners.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

But they turned, and revolted from You, and cast Your law behind their backs; and they killed Your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to You, and they worked great provocations.

Seeing you have hated instruction, and have cast My words behind [you].

Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have forgotten Me, and have cast Me behind your back, therefore receive [the reward] of your ungodliness and your fornication.