Psalms 106:20
Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass.
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- Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
- Rom 1:22-23 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
- Exod 20:4-5 : 4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Ps 89:17 : 17 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
- Isa 40:18-25 : 18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him? 19 The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains. 20 He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 [It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in; 23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. 25 To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.
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- Ps 106:18-192 verses85%
18 A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped a molten image.
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21 They forgot God, their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,
- Rom 1:21-255 verses77%
21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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18 Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had committed awful blasphemies;
- Exod 32:7-82 verses75%
7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought 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 themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
- Acts 7:40-423 verses74%
40 saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
41 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
42 But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
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2 Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."
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39 Thus were they defiled with their works, And prostituted themselves in their deeds.
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7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
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36 They served their idols, Which became a snare to them.
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4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
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11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
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16 They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Baal.
- Exod 32:23-242 verses69%
23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'
24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."
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20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
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58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
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29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
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3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
- Ps 106:13-142 verses69%
13 They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,
14 But gave in to craving in the desert, And tested God in the wasteland.
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8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.
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16 I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
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11 They forgot his doings, His wondrous works that he had shown them.
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4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
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30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
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6 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.
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20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.
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16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
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18 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
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2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
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12 Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
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20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
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5 Let Samaria throw out his calf-idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be before the are capable of purity?
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12 and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
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40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!
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20 The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
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8 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who trusts in them.
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17 The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.