Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

Bible References

He saw

Exodus 32:4
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!”
Deuteronomy 9:16
I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.

The dancing

Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with their tambourines and danced.
2 Samuel 6:14
David was dancing with all his might before the Lord wearing a linen ephod.
Lamentations 5:15
Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.

Brake them

Deuteronomy 9:17
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 27:26
‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Jeremiah 31:32
This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke even though I had married them”—the Lord’s declaration.
Zechariah 11:10
Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, annulling the covenant I had made with all the peoples.

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