1 Kings 12:28 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 28 Consequently the king took counsel+ and made two golden calves+ and said to the people:* “It is too much for YOU to go up to Jerusalem. Here is your God,*+ O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”+ Hosea 8:6 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 6 For from Israel was even this.+ A mere craftsman made it,+ and it is not God;* because the calf of Sa·marʹi·a will become mere splinters.+
28 Consequently the king took counsel+ and made two golden calves+ and said to the people:* “It is too much for YOU to go up to Jerusalem. Here is your God,*+ O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”+
6 For from Israel was even this.+ A mere craftsman made it,+ and it is not God;* because the calf of Sa·marʹi·a will become mere splinters.+