wSee Ps. 80:8-11
Exodus 32:1-4
The Golden Calf
1When the people saw that Moses adelayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, b“Up, make us gods who shall cgo before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2So Aaron said to them, “Take off the drings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 eAnd he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden ▼▼Hebrew cast metal; also verse 8
calf. And they said, g“These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” Ezekiel 7:19
19They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. hTheir silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. iFor it was jthe stumbling block of their iniquity.Ezekiel 23:14-21
14But she carried her whoring further. She saw men kportrayed on the wall, the limages of mthe Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16When she saw them, she lusted after them and nsent messengers to them oin Chaldea. 17And the Babylonians came to her pinto the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, qshe turned from them in disgust. 18When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 19Yet she increased her whoring, rremembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 20and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 21Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed ▼▼Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew bosom for the sake of
your young breasts.” Hosea 2:13
13And tI will punish her for uthe feast days of the Baalswhen she burned offerings to them
and vadorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, declares the Lord.
Hosea 10:1
1 wIsrael is a luxuriant vinethat yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
xthe more altars he built;
as his country improved,
he improved his pillars.
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