Exodus 32:19

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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.

He saw

Exodus 32:4

Deuteronomy 9:16

The dancing

Exodus 15:20

2 Samuel 6:14

Lamentations 5:15

Brake them

Bible References

He saw

And he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf (idol). You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.

The dancing

Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron [and Moses], took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her with timbrels and dancing.

And David was dancing before the Lord with great enthusiasm, and David was wearing a linen ephod [a priest’s upper garment].

The joy of our hearts has ended;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Brake them

So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and smashed them before your very eyes!

‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them [keeping them, taking them to heart as the rule of his life].’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says the Lord.

I took my staff, Favor, and broke it in pieces, breaking the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.