Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

General references

Exodus 32:4
He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 9:12
And he said to me, "Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image."
Nehemiah 9:18
even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, 'This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,' or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.
1 Corinthians 10:7
So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."

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