1 Kings 12:32 (WEB)
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
Fathers and councils · 2
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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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Now those who do not observe the feast, continue such as these even to the present day, feigning indeed and devising names of feasts, but rather introducing days of mourning than of gladness; ‘For there is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.’” — editor's note: Syr. σχηματισάμενος. The allusion in this sentence is evidently to the conduct of Jeroboam, as recorded 1 Kings xii. 32, 33. The phraseology of the Syriac…
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Cross-references · 2
1 Kings 12:32 and 2 Kings 17:32 share the same wording (9 words).
Genesis 1:31 and 1 Kings 12:32 share the same wording (9 words).