took counsel

1 Kings 12:8, 9
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him. . . .

Exodus 1:10
Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country."

Isaiah 30:1
Woe to the rebellious children, declares the LORD, to those who carry out a plan, but not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

Exodus 20:4
You shall not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens above, the earth below, or the waters under the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:14-18
At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land into which you are crossing to possess. . . .

2 Kings 10:29
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit--the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

2 Kings 17:16
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

2 Chronicles 11:15
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat-demons and calf idols he had made.

Hosea 8:4-7
They set up kings, but not by Me. they make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction. . . .

Hosea 10:5, 6
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn for it with its idolatrous priests--those who rejoiced in its glory--for it has been taken from them into exile. . . .

It is too much

Isaiah 30:10
They say to the seers, "No more visions, " and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us the truth. Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

2 Peter 2:19
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever has overcome him.

behold

Exodus 32:4, 8
He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, "O Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" . . .