Psalm 106:19

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

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And a fire broke out in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked. ¹⁹ 
They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)
And worshiped a cast image.
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Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.

Carved Image

Mount Sinai

Molten Image

Horeb

Sinai

Exodus 32:4-8

And he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving 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

So the Lord struck the people with a plague, because of what they had done with the calf which Aaron had made [for them].

Deuteronomy 9:8

And at Horeb (Sinai) 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 from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made (cast) a molten image for themselves.’

Deuteronomy 9:21

I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it in the fire and thoroughly crushed it, grinding the metal thoroughly 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 had made for themselves
A calf of cast metal
And said, ‘This is your god
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies,

Acts 7:41

In those days they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced and celebrated over the works of their hands.

1 Corinthians 10:7

Do not be worshipers of handmade gods, as some of them were; just as it is written [in Scripture], “The people sat down to eat and drink [after sacrificing to the golden calf at Horeb], and stood up to play [indulging in immoral activities].”