1 Kings 12

1 Kings 12:10

My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

The easiest impositions, that I shall lay upon you, shall be more grievous than the heaviest that you complain of, from my father.

1 Kings 12:24

For this thing is from me.

I have ordered and contrived this business, for the just punishment of thy father’s defection from me.

1 Kings 12:28

Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Behold, O Israel, the remembrances and representations of that God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: in and by these, mayest thou recal and worship that deity.

1 Kings 12:31

And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people.

Instead of God’s Temple at Jerusalem, he set up houses of pretended devotion, wherein he appointed God to be worshipped in his own idolatrous fashion; and ordained priests accordingly, men that were of other tribes, besides the sacred tribe of Levi, and men of base condition, fit for the idols he had set up.