Psalms 106:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Exod 32:4-8 : 4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 [And when Aaron] [saw] [this], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast to Jehovah. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exod 32:35 : 35 And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
Deut 9:8 : 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
Deut 9:12-16 : 12 And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
Deut 9:21 : 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
Neh 9:18 : 18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
Acts 7:41 : 41 And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
1 Cor 10:7 : 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 106:20-21
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20Thus they changed their glory For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.
21They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
Neh 9:18
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18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
Acts 7:40-42
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40saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
41And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Exod 32:7-8
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7And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exod 32:4
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4And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exod 32:23-24
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23For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
24And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
2 Kgs 17:16
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16And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
Deut 9:16
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16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
Hos 13:2
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2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Deut 9:12
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12And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Ps 106:18
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18And a fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
Exod 32:19-20
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19And 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.
20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Exod 32:35
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35And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
1 Kgs 12:28
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28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Ps 106:29
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29Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.
Ps 106:36
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36And served their idols, Which became a snare unto them.
Ps 106:39
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39Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
Isa 46:6
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6Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall down, yea, they worship.
Ps 78:58
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58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Isa 44:17
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17And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Exod 34:17
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17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Deut 9:21
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21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
Isa 40:19
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19The image, a workman hath cast [it], and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silver chains.
Exod 32:1
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1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Amos 5:26
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26Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Ps 106:14
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14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.
Hos 11:2
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2The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
2 Kgs 17:12
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12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Judg 18:31
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31So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Hos 8:6
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6For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Isa 2:8
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8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Judg 2:12
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12and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger.
Exod 32:31
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31And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Ps 115:4
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4Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
Isa 44:10
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10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Rom 1:23
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23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
2 Kgs 17:10
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10and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
Num 25:2
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2for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.