Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

Bible References

He saw

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 9:16
And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.

The dancing

Exodus 15:20
Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.
2 Samuel 6:14
And David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts has ceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Brake them

Deuteronomy 9:17
I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 27:26
Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Jeremiah 31:32
not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.
Zechariah 11:10
I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.