Deuteronomy 9:12

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And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”

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  • Exod 32:7-8 : 7 The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly. 8 They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
  • Judg 2:17 : 17 But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.
  • Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the LORD, inciting him to anger because of your actions.”
  • Deut 32:5 : 5 His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.
  • Deut 4:16 : 16 I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,
  • Deut 9:16 : 16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
  • Ps 78:57 : 57 They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!
  • Gal 1:6 : 6 Occasion of the Letter I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel–
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.
  • Gen 6:11-12 : 11 The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence. 12 God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

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  • Exod 32:7-9
    3 verses
    88%

    7The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

    8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

    9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

  • Deut 9:15-17
    3 verses
    84%

    15So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

    16When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!

    17I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

  • Neh 9:18
    83%

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Deut 9:13
    81%

    13Moreover, he said to me,“I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

  • Exod 32:4
    77%

    4He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said,“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

  • Exod 33:5
    77%

    5For the LORD had said to Moses,“Tell the Israelites,‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.’”

  • Exod 32:1
    77%

    1The Sin of the Golden Calf When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him,“Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!”

  • Exod 32:31
    76%

    31So Moses returned to the LORD and said,“Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

  • Exod 32:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23They said to me,‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

    24So I said to them,‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”

  • Ps 106:19
    76%

    19They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.

  • Deut 9:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

    11Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

  • Deut 31:16
    75%

    16Then the LORD said to Moses,“You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

  • Exod 19:21
    75%

    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Judg 2:12
    75%

    12They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.

  • Exod 32:19
    75%

    19When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

  • Deut 10:5
    74%

    5Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made– they are still there, just as the LORD commanded me.

  • Exod 19:24
    74%

    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

  • Deut 10:1
    74%

    1The Opportunity to Begin Again At that same time the LORD said to me,“Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

  • Acts 7:40-41
    2 verses
    74%

    40saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’

    41At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Exod 32:35
    74%

    35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf– the one Aaron made.

  • Deut 4:25
    73%

    25Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,

  • Ezek 20:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7I said to them,“Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”

    8But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 24:12
    73%

    12The LORD said to Moses,“Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.”

  • Deut 9:8
    73%

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Exod 32:12
    73%

    12Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • Deut 9:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • 1 Kgs 14:9
    73%

    9You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    73%

    9Others will then answer,‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who led their ancestors out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why the LORD has brought all this disaster down on them.’”

  • Lev 19:4
    72%

    4Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 34:17
    72%

    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    72%

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • Judg 2:20
    72%

    20A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

  • Exod 34:1
    72%

    1The New Tablets of the Covenant The LORD said to Moses,“Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.

  • Exod 32:21
    72%

    21Moses said to Aaron,“What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

  • Deut 29:17
    72%

    17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    72%

    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?