1 Kings 14:9

But hast done evil above all that were before thee [perhaps preceding kings are not meant, so much as judges— judices et duces Israelis (Le Clerc). Kings, however, are not excluded. Both Saul and Solomon had sinned (1 Samuel passim ; 1 Kings 11:5 , 1 Kings 11:6 ), though neither had set up an organized idolism and "made Israel to sin"]: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods [in defiance of the decalogue ( Exodus 20:4 ). Jeroboam, no doubt, insisted that his calves were not idols, but cherubic symbols. But God does not recognize this distinction. Practically they were "other gods," and so they are here called derisively], and molten images [the word is used of the golden calf, Exodus 32:4 , Exodus 32:8 . See also Exodus 34:17 ; Deuteronomy 9:12 ; 17:3 , 17:4 . The "other gods" and the "molten images" are but two names for the same thing, viz; the calves of Bethel and Dan], to provoke me to anger [This was the result, not, of course, the object of Jeroboam's idolatrous worship], and hast cast me [The order of the Hebrew stamps the "me" as emphatic, " and ME hast thou cast, etc.] behind thy back [This strong expression only occurs here and in Ezekiel 23:35 . It forcibly expresses Jeroboam's, contemptuous disregard of God's revealed will. In Psalms 1:1-6 :17, Nehemiah 9:26 , we have somewhat similar phrases]: