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.

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Bible References

Rejoiced

Isaiah 2:8
Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.
Isaiah 44:9
All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
Hosea 9:1
O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.
Habakkuk 2:18
What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

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Exodus 32:35
And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf -- the one Aaron made.

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