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19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
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And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
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. …
Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-33)This is an abridgment of the history of Israel’s provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor. 10:5); for these things were written for our admonition , that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them. I. The cause of their sin was disregard to the works and…
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