The "calves of gold" were likely representations of the cherubic form—imitations of the two cherubim that guarded the ark of the covenant in the Mo…

In these verses is recorded the adoption of the fatal policy which has caused Jeroboam to be handed down in the sacred record as the son of Neb…

Truly, history repeats itself; only, if it is bad history, it is apt to grow worse. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the…

Whereupon the king took counsel
Of some of his principal men, that had as little religion as himself, and were only …

Jeroboam distrusted the providence of God; he would contrive ways and means, and sinful ones too, for his own safety. A practical disbelief of God'…