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Jeroboam and the Golden Idol

Name: Jeroboam and the Golden Idol
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SKU: rhpas3656
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King Jeroboam holds a golden object associated with false worship while an aged prophet leans close in solemn warning and a young child watches between them. The intimate arrangement focuses the viewer on Israel’s spiritual crisis after the kingdom divided: Jeroboam feared losing political control if the people returned to Jerusalem, so he established alternate worship centers and set up golden calves for Israel to follow. The prophet’s presence gives the scene a tone of divine confrontation, exposing idolatry not merely as a ritual mistake but as a betrayal of covenant faithfulness. This artwork suits Bible teaching on idolatry, the divided kingdom, prophetic rebuke, and the danger of replacing obedience to God with man-made religion.

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Keywords	golden calf golden idol idolatry israel Jeroboam prophet
Secondary Keywords	bible story covenant warning Divided Kingdom false worship idol king old testament rh
Tertiary Keywords	1 Kings Bible lesson man-made religion northern kingdom prophetic rebuke Spiritual compromise
Scriptures	1 Kings 12:26-30 1 Kings 12:31-33 1 Kings 13:1-3 1 Kings 12 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David. 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” 28 So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one. 1 Kings 12 31 He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. 32 And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 33 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings. 1 Kings 13 1 And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings. 2 And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’” 3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”

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