Psalms 106:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Psalms 106:20 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:11
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Exodus 20:4-5
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: …
Romans 1:22-23
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, …
Isaiah 40:18-25
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? …
Psalms 89:17
For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

Topics

Adultery Gentiles Gods Groves Heathen High Places Iconoclasm Idolatry

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 w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

19-23. From indirect setting God at naught, they pass to direct. made--though prohibited in Ex 20:4, 5 to make a likeness, even of the true God. calf--called so in contempt. They would have made an ox or bull, but their idol turned out but a calf; an imitation of the divine symbols, the cherubim; or of the sacred bull of Egyptian idolatry. The idolatry was more sinful in view of their recent exper…