Exo 32:20, Judg 6:31, 17:4-5, 1Sa 4:11, 6:2-9, 2Ki 19:18-19, Isa 46:1-2, 7 | ESV | STEP | He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

20 He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

Judges 6:31

31 But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.”

Judges 17:4-5

4 So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother ^atook 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah. 5 And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made ^ban ephod and ^chousehold gods, and ^dordained ^{▼▼Hebrew filled the hand of; also verse 12} one of his sons, who became his priest.

1 Samuel 4:11

11 ^fAnd the ark of God was captured, ^gand the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

1 Samuel 6:2-9

2 And the Philistines called for the priests and ^hthe diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.” 3 They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him ⁱa guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why ^jhis hand does not turn away from you.” 4 And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?” They answered, “Five golden ^ktumors and five golden mice, ^laccording to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords. 5 So you must make images of your ^mtumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, ⁿand give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps ^ohe will lighten his hand from off you ^pand your gods and your land. 6 Why should you harden your hearts as ^qthe Egyptians and ^rPharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, ^sdid they not send the people away, and they departed? 7 Now then, take and prepare ^ta new cart and two milk cows ^uon which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them. 8 And take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side ^vthe figures of gold, which you are returning to him as ^wa guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way 9 and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to ^xBeth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not ^yhis hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”

2 Kings 19:18-19

18 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, ^zbut the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 19 So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, ^aathat all the kingdoms of the earth may know that ^abyou, O Lord, are God alone.”

Isaiah 46:1-2

The Idols of Babylon and the One True God

1 ^acBel bows down; Nebo stoops;
their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
2 They stoop; they bow down together;
they cannot save the burden,
but ^adthemselves go into captivity.

Isaiah 46:7

7 ^aeThey lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
^afit cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.