Psalm 106:19

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

¹⁸ And a fire blazed up in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.
¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.
²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.

Carved Image

Mount Sinai

Molten Image

Horeb

Sinai

Exodus 32:4-8

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.”

Exodus 32:35

Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

Deuteronomy 9:8

Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 9:12-16

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.’

Deuteronomy 9:21

I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

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,

Acts 7:41

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

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.”