Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

Bible References

General references

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 9:12
“The Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’
Nehemiah 9:18
Even after they had cast an image of a calf
for themselves and said,
“This is your God who brought you out of Egypt,”
and they had committed terrible blasphemies,
1 Corinthians 10:7
Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.

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