Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 14:9

9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee : for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images , to provoke me to anger , and hast cast me behind thy back :

Above all the former Kings of my People, as Saul, and Solomon, and Rehoboam.

Or, other Gods, to wit, (for so and oft signifies among the Hebrews, as hath been formerly noted) molten images, namely, the Golden Calves: which he calls other gods, not as if the Israelites esteemed the Calves made of their own Gold, to be gods indeed, which it is incredible should find belief with any man in his wits, especially with the whole Body of the Israelites, who knew that the Ark and Cherubims, though made by Gods special direction, were not Gods, but onely Pledges of Gods presence, &c. Nor as if they thought them to be other gods in a strict and proper sense; for it is apparent that they still pretended to Worship the God of their Fathers, as the Iews at Ierusalem did, though in a differing manner; but onely because God rejected their whole Worship, and, howsoever they called or accounted it, he reckoned it a manifest defection from him, and a betaking of themselves to other gods, or devils, as they are called, 2 Chron. 11. 15. by whose instigation they were led to such Idolatrous practises, and whom alone they served and worshipped therein, whatsoever pretences they had to the contrary.

i. e. Whereby thou didst provoke me. For otherwise this was not Ieroboam's design in it, but onely to Establish himself in the Throne.

Despised, and disregarded, and forsaken me, and my Commands, and my Worship, as we do things which we cast behind our backs.