Verse 7
GOD'S MESSAGE OF REJECTION TO JEROBOAM
"Go, tell Jeroboam, thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes, but hast done evil above all that was before thee, and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam, every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in .Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone."
"And hast gone and made thee other gods" (1 Kings 14:9). This verse out of the mouth of one of God's true prophets contradicts all of that nonsense written by some present-day commentators who explain Jeroboam's golden bulls as "symbols of Jehovah," or as "pedestals upon which the invisible Jehovah stood." Those bulls were idols in the simplest and most shameful sense! God, in this passage, through the mouth of Ahijah, called them what they certainly were - "other gods." How do the critics get around that? We shall explain this following 1 Kings 14:16.
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