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Psalms 106:19

Horeb
Sin

17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

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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.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Exodus 32:35

    And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

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  • Exodus 32:4–8

    And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:12–16

    And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:8

    Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:7

    Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

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  • Nehemiah 9:18

    Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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  • Acts 7:41

    And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:21

    And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

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