1 Kings 14:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But hast done evil above all that were before thee Above all the judges and former kings of my people, none of whom set up images, and persuaded the people to worship them. For thou hast made thee other gods, and molten images Namely, the golden calves: not as if they thought them to be other gods in a proper sense, but only representations of the true God; for it is apparent they still pretended to worship the God of their fathers; but because God rejected their whole worship, and, howsoever they accounted it, he reckoned it a manifest defection from him, and a betaking themselves to other gods, or devils, as they are called 2 Chronicles 11:15, whom alone they served and worshipped therein, whatsoever pretences they had to the contrary. To provoke Whereby thou didst provoke me. For otherwise this was not Jeroboam's design in it, but only to establish himself in the throne. And hast cast me behind thy back Despised and forsaken me, and my commands, and my worship, as we do things which we cast behind our backs.