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Podcast: Gilbert House Fellowship
Episode: Jeroboam's Golden Calves
Description: YOUâD THINK that being anointed king over the northern tribes because of Solomonâs disobedience to God would have caused Jeroboam to be more careful about his theology. We follow up last weekâs study with the consequences of Jeroboamâs decision to set up altars with golden calves. Contrary to some who teach that the golden calves were idols representing God, we believe the locationsâBethel (âHouse of Elâ) and Dan, at the foot of Mount Hermonâpoint to the Canaanite father-god El, whose main epithet was âBull El.â Mount Hermon was Elâs âmount of assemb...