Calf of Gold
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
16 sections
- An Altar Built Before
- Destroyed by Moses
- Fashioned with a Graven Tool
- Made on Account of the Delay of Moses in the Mount
- Making of a Forgetting of God
- Making of a Turning Aside from the Divine Command
- Making of a Very Great Sin
- Making of Caused Moses to Break the Tables of the Testimony
- Making of Excited Wrath Against Aaron
- Making of Excited Wrath Against Israel
- Making of Israel Punished For
- Molten in the Fire
- Moses Interceded for Those Who Worshipped
- Punishment of Those Who Worshipped a Warning to Others
- Sacrifices offered To
- Worshipped with Profane Revelry
An Altar Built Before
- Exodus 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”
Destroyed by Moses
- Exodus 32:20 Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.
- Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Fashioned with a Graven Tool
- Exodus 32:4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
Made on Account of the Delay of Moses in the Mount
- Exodus 32:1 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do …
Making of a Forgetting of God
- Psalm 106:21 They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
Making of a Turning Aside from the Divine Command
- Exodus 32:8 How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you …
- Deuteronomy 9:12 And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for …
- Deuteronomy 9:16 And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
Making of a Very Great Sin
- Exodus 32:21 “What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
- Exodus 32:30–31 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” …
Making of Caused Moses to Break the Tables of the Testimony
- Exodus 32:19 As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
- Deuteronomy 9:17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
Making of Excited Wrath Against Aaron
- Deuteronomy 9:20 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
Making of Excited Wrath Against Israel
- Exodus 32:10 Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
- Deuteronomy 9:14 Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
- Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
Making of Israel Punished For
- Exodus 32:26–29 So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him. …
- Exodus 32:35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
Molten in the Fire
- Exodus 32:4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- Psalm 106:19 At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
Moses Interceded for Those Who Worshipped
- Exodus 32:11–14 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? …
- Exodus 32:30–34 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” …
- Deuteronomy 9:18–20 Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and …
Punishment of Those Who Worshipped a Warning to Others
- 1 Corinthians 10:5–7 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. …
Sacrifices offered To
- Exodus 32:6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
- Acts 7:41 At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
Worshipped with Profane Revelry
- Exodus 32:6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
- Exodus 32:18–19 But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!” …
- Exodus 32:25 Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.