Psalms 106:19

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

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  • Exod 32:4-8 : 4 He 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.” 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said,“Tomorrow will be a feast to the LORD.” 6 So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play. 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.’”
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf– the one Aaron made.
  • Deut 9:8 : 8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
  • Deut 9:12-16 : 12 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.” 13 Moreover, he said to me,“I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot! 14 Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.” 15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. 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!
  • Deut 9:21 : 21 As 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.
  • Neh 9:18 : 18 even 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.
  • Acts 7:41 : 41 At 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.
  • 1 Cor 10:7 : 7 So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. 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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    85%

    20They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

    21They rejected the God who delivered them, the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,

  • Neh 9:18
    84%

    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.

  • Acts 7:40-42
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

    42But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

  • Exod 32:7-8
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    81%

    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.’”

  • Exod 32:4
    79%

    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 32:23-24
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    78%

    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.”

  • 2 Kgs 17:16
    77%

    16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.

  • Deut 9:16
    77%

    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!

  • Hos 13:2
    76%

    2Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them:“Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”

  • Deut 9:12
    76%

    12And 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.”

  • Ps 106:18
    75%

    18Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.

  • Exod 32:19-20
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    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.

    20He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

  • Exod 32:35
    74%

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

  • 1 Kgs 12:28
    73%

    28After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,“It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

  • Ps 106:29
    73%

    29They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

  • Ps 106:36
    73%

    36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

  • Ps 106:39
    72%

    39They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

  • Isa 46:6
    72%

    6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

  • Ps 78:58
    72%

    58They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

  • Isa 44:17
    71%

    17With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’

  • Exod 34:17
    71%

    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

  • Deut 9:21
    71%

    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.

  • Isa 40:19
    71%

    19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

  • Exod 32:1
    71%

    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!”

  • Amos 5:26
    71%

    26You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,

  • Ps 106:14
    71%

    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

    2But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    71%

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

  • Judg 18:31
    71%

    31They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.

  • Hos 8:6
    71%

    6That idol was made by a workman– it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

  • Isa 2:8
    70%

    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

  • Judg 2:12
    70%

    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 32:31
    70%

    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.

  • Ps 115:4
    70%

    4Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.

  • Isa 44:10
    70%

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

  • Rom 1:23
    69%

    23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    69%

    10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • Num 25:2
    69%

    2These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.