Exodus 32:8
8They have turned aside quickly out of the way that aI commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”Judges 17:3-4
3And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make ba carved image and ca metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.” 4So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother dtook 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.Nehemiah 9:18
18Even ewhen they had made for themselves a golden ▼▼Hebrew metal
calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ gand had committed great blasphemies, Isaiah 40:18-19
18 hTo whom then will you liken God,ior what likeness compare with him?
19 jAn idol! A craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.
Romans 1:21-23
21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they kbecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 lClaiming to be wise, they became fools, 23and mexchanged the glory of nthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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