Psalm 106:19

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

¹⁸ Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked. ¹⁹ They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol. ²⁰ They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

Carved Image

Mount Sinai

Molten Image

Horeb

Sinai

Exodus 32:4-8

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."

Exodus 32:35

And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf -- the one Aaron made.

Deuteronomy 9:8

At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:12-16

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."

Deuteronomy 9:21

As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

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.

Acts 7:41

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

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."