Exodus 32:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.

Aaron

1 Samuel 14:35

2 Kings 16:11

Hosea 8:11

Made proclamation

A feast

1 Corinthians 5:8

General references

Deuteronomy 9:20

Nehemiah 9:18

Psalm 106:19

Bible References

Aaron

And Saul put up an altar to the Lord: this was the first altar which he put up to the Lord.

And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

Made proclamation

Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.

And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;

And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made.

So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law.

A feast

And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.

And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

General references

And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.