Psalm 106:19

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

¹⁸ Fire blazed throughout their assembly;
flames consumed the wicked. ¹⁹ At Horeb they made a calf
and worshiped the cast metal image.
²⁰ They exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Carved Image

Mount Sinai

Molten Image

Horeb

Sinai

Exodus 32:4-8

He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf.

Then they said, “Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:35

And the Lord inflicted a plague on the people for what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

Deuteronomy 9:8

You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and He was angry enough with you to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:12-16

“The Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’

Deuteronomy 9:21

I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Nehemiah 9:18

Even after they had cast an image of a calf
for themselves and said,
“This is your God who brought you out of Egypt,”
and they had committed terrible blasphemies,

Acts 7:41

They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

1 Corinthians 10:7

Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.