Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

General references

Bible References

Rejoiced

Isaiah 2:8
Their land has also been filled with idols;
They worship the work of their hands,
That which their fingers have made.
Isaiah 44:9
Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.
Hosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations!
For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.
Habakkuk 2:18
“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

General references

Exodus 32:35
Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

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