1 Kings 12:28 (WEB)
So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
Fathers and councils · 2
Origen
“Wherefore, although he did return to the land of Israel, he returned only to divide the people of God, and to make them say to the golden calf, “These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up from the land of Egypt.”” — editor's note: [1 Kings xii. 28. S.]
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Tertullian
“For thus, in the later times in which kings were governing them, did they again, in conjunction with Jeroboam, worship golden kine, and groves, and enslave themselves to Baal.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Kings xii. 25–33; 2 Kings xvii. 7–17 (in LXX. 3 and 4 Kings). The Eng. ver. speaks of “calves;” the LXX. call them “heifers.”
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.
Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.
Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.
Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.
Cited together in A Letter from Origen to Gregory Chapter 1.