Psalm 106:19-23 Part 1 of 2

The people made a calf at Mount Sinai;

    they bowed down before an image made of gold.

They traded their glorious God

    for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

They forgot God, their savior,

    who had done such great things in Egypt--

such wonderful things in the land of Ham,

    such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.

So he declared he would destroy them.

    But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the LORD and the people.

    He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.

 

The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed down before an image made of gold.

Exodus 20:22-23  And the LORD said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: You saw for yourselves that I spoke to you from heaven. Remember, you must not make any idols of silver or gold to rival me."  (see all chapter 20)

Exodus 32:4  Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down, and molded it into the shape of a calf. When the people saw it, they exclaimed, "O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of the land of Egypt!"  

(see verses 1-6, also Deuteronomy 9:7-21)

Acts 7:41  "So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated over this thing they had made."  (see verses 30-43)

 

They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull. 

Jeremiah 2:11  

"Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,

    even though they are not gods at all?

Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God

    for worthless idols!"  (see verses 1-13)

Romans 1:23  And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.  (see verses 18-32)

 

They forgot God, their savior, who had done such great things in Egypt--such wonderful things in the land of Ham, such awesome deeds at the Red Sea. 

Deuteronomy 4:34-35  "Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes.

    He showed you these things so you would know that the LORD is God and there is no other."  (see verses 32-40)

Deuteronomy 6:12  "... be careful not to forget the LORD who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt."  (see all chapter 6)

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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