Thematic Bible: Molding


Thematic Bible



He took them from them and, using a tool, fashioned them into a molten calf. The people said, "This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt."

They have been quick to turn aside from the way I commanded them, and they have made for themselves a molten calf. They have bowed down to it in worship, they have offered sacrifices to it, and they have said, "This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

"Then the LORD told me, "Get going! Go down from here at once! Your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned quickly from the way that I commanded them, and have cast an idol for their use.'

"You are not to make molten gods for yourselves.

"You are not to turn to their idols or cast gods out of melted metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.


The king had them forged in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah in the Jordan plain.

The king had them cast in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan in the Jordan plain.


Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror?


Hiram also made a sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in shape and five cubits and 30 cubits in its inner circumference.


He fashioned two bronze pillars, each one eighteen cubits high, with a circumference of twelve cubits.


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