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 this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving 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.”
Deuteronomy 9:12
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’
Nehemiah 9:18
“Even when they made for themselves
A calf of molten metal
And said, ‘This is your God
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great blasphemies,
1 Corinthians 10:7
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.”

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