28 Consequently the king took counsel+ and made two golden calves+ and said to the people:* “It is too much for YOU to go up to Jerusalem. Here is your God,*+ O Israel, that brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”+

9 And they did not listen,+ but Ma·nasʹseh kept seducing them to do what was bad+ more than the nations+ whom Jehovah had annihilated from before the sons of Israel.