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Bible Stories

King Jeroboam and the Golden Calves

Bible Stories

Matt Mullins and Todd Haymans

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

King Jeroboam was entrusted with a kingdom—personally chosen by God to lead the newly formed nation of Israel. All the Lord desired in return was his wholehearted devotion. Tragically, driven by insecurity and fear of losing power, Jeroboam turned away from the Lord. In an effort to secure his own position, he fashioned a counterfeit system of worship, reshaping religion not to honor God, but to control the people of God.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Bible stories.

0:24.2

We are your hosts, Matt Mullen.

0:26.2

Hello.

0:27.3

My name is Todd Heymans, and we're two ministers slash buds who love telling the stories of the Bible.

0:32.7

And hey, we can't wait to share this one with you.

0:35.1

This, Matt, is a back-to-back.

0:38.3

We talked a little bit about Solomon and then Rehoboam taken over.

0:43.3

But this is about Jeroboam, right?

0:46.3

Yeah, all the boeums.

0:47.3

This is like these two stories are happening at the same time, and you're going to see this a lot,

0:53.3

where now we have two different nations. We have

0:55.8

Judah and we have Israel, where it was one country. It's now divided. And so there are going to be

1:01.7

kings in each of these countries and prophets who are speaking to these countries at different

1:06.2

times and sometimes at the same time and prophets in both places and just so there's going to be timelines

1:12.3

that are kind of running parallel this is one of those yeah it's kind of like you know when

1:17.7

sylvester stalone there there was a parallel happening where he was rambo and rocky balboa you know

1:26.4

so a little bit of bow there bohem ramum, Ramboem, Rocky Balboem,

1:30.7

but also not the same thing at all.

1:32.8

Yeah, Ramboem.

1:33.8

I love that.

1:34.8

I was honestly thinking a parallel between Sly and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1:40.6

Ooh.

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