1 Kings 12:28 (Read all of 1 Kings 12)
After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."
1 Kings 12:32 (Read all of 1 Kings 12)
He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.
1 Kings 14:9 (Read all of 1 Kings 14)
You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.
1 Kings 14:26 (Read all of 1 Kings 14)
He carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
1 Kings 14:27 (Read all of 1 Kings 14)
So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
1 Kings 15:12 (Read all of 1 Kings 15)
He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
1 Kings 15:13 (Read all of 1 Kings 15)
He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
1 Kings 16:33 (Read all of 1 Kings 16)
Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.
1 Kings 18:10 (Read all of 1 Kings 18)
As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you.
1 Kings 18:18 (Read all of 1 Kings 18)
"I have not made trouble for Israel," Elijah replied. "But you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the Lord's commands and have followed the Baals.
1 Kings 18:26 (Read all of 1 Kings 18)
So they took the bull given them and prepared it. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. "Baal, answer us!" they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.
1 Kings 20:34 (Read all of 1 Kings 20)
"I will return the cities my father took from your father," Ben-Hadad offered. "You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria." Ahab said, "On the basis of a treaty I will set you free." So he made a treaty with him, and let him go.
1 Kings 22:11 (Read all of 1 Kings 22)
Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, "This is what the Lord says: 'With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' "
2 Kings 3:2 (Read all of 2 Kings 3)
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings 6:6 (Read all of 2 Kings 6)
The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float.
2 Kings 11:4 (Read all of 2 Kings 11)
In the seventh year Jehoiada sent for the commanders of units of a hundred, the Carites and the guards and had them brought to him at the temple of the Lord. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath at the temple of the Lord. Then he showed them the king's son.
2 Kings 11:13 (Read all of 2 Kings 11)
When Athaliah heard the noise made by the guards and the people, she went to the people at the temple of the Lord.
2 Kings 11:17 (Read all of 2 Kings 11)
Jehoiada then made a covenant between the Lord and the king and people that they would be the Lord's people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
2 Kings 13:7 (Read all of 2 Kings 13)
Nothing had been left of the army of Jehoahaz except fifty horsemen, ten chariots and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed the rest and made them like the dust at threshing time.
2 Kings 14:21 (Read all of 2 Kings 14)
Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings 17:15 (Read all of 2 Kings 17)
They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, "Do not do as they do."
2 Kings 17:16 (Read all of 2 Kings 17)
They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.
2 Kings 17:21 (Read all of 2 Kings 17)
When he tore Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam enticed Israel away from following the Lord and caused them to commit a great sin.
2 Kings 17:29 (Read all of 2 Kings 17)
Nevertheless, each national group made its own gods in the several towns where they settled, and set them up in the shrines the people of Samaria had made at the high places.
2 Kings 17:30 (Read all of 2 Kings 17)
The people from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, those from Kuthah made Nergal, and those from Hamath made Ashima;