Exodus 32:4; Deuteronomy 9:16; 1 Kings 12:28; 2 Kings 17:16; Nehemiah 9:18; Psalm 106:19–20

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Exodus 32:4

4 And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and kmade a golden1 calf. And they said, l“These are your gods, O Israel, mwho brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”


Deuteronomy 9:16

16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden1 calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.


1 Kings 12:28

28 So the king took counsel and made two ucalves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. vBehold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”


2 Kings 17:16

16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and omade for themselves metal images of two calves; and they pmade an Asherah and qworshiped all the host of heaven and rserved Baal.


Nehemiah 9:18

18 Even jwhen they had made for themselves a golden1 calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,


Psalm 106:19–20

19  bThey cmade a calf in Horeb

and worshiped a dmetal image.

20  They eexchanged the glory of God1

for the fimage of an ox that eats grass.