Psalms 106:19

¹⁷ The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁸ Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

²⁰ They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²¹ They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
KJV: They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
WEB: They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
ASV: They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
DARBY: They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
BLB: They made a calf in Horeb, and they bowed down to a molten image.

ÅB: De gjorde en kalv ved Horeb og tilba et støpt bilde,
OTB: De laget en kalv ved Horeb,
og tilba et støpt bilde.
B1930: De gjorde en kalv ved Horeb og tilbad et støpt billede,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

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.
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Exodus 32:4–8
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!”
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Deuteronomy 9:12–16
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 themselves a molten image.”
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Deuteronomy 9:8
At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
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1 Corinthians 10:7
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
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Nehemiah 9:18
Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
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Acts 7:41
At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
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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.
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