took counsel: 1 Kings 12:8-9; Exodus 1:10; Isaiah 30:1
two calves of gold: He invented a political religion, and instituted feasts in his own times, different from those appointed by Jehovah; gave the people certain objects of adoration, and pretended to think that it would be both inconvenient and oppressive to them to go up to Jerusalem to worship. These calves were doubtless of the same kind as the calf which was set up by Aaron; and it is remarkable, that in pointing them out to the people he should use the same words that Aaron used on that occasion, when they must have heard what terrible judgments fell upon their forefathers for this idolatry. Solomon's idolatry, however, had prepared the people for Jeroboam's abominations. Exodus 20:4; Deuteronomy 4:14-18; 2 Kings 10:29, 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Chronicles 11:15; Hosea 8:4-7, Hosea 10:5-6
It is too much: Isaiah 30:10; 2 Peter 2:19
behold: Exodus 32:4, Exodus 32:8