17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. …
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-17)Reconciliation being made, a covenant of friendship is here settled between God and Israel. The traitors are not only pardoned, but preferred and made favourites again. Well may the assurances of this be ushered in with a behold , a word commanding attention and admiration: Behold, I make a covenant . When the covenant was broken, it was Israel that broke it; now that it comes to be renewed, it is…
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