Deuteronomy 9:21

I took that abominable thing, the calf you'd made, and burned it. Then I crushed it up and ground it into dust, and I threw it into the stream that descended from the mountain.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

20The Lord was so angry with Aaron he was ready to destroy him, but right then I prayed for Aaron too.

22But you went on provoking the Lord at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:20He took the bull calf and burned it, and ground it into powder. Then he mixed this with water and made the Israelites drink it.

2 Chronicles 34:7He tore down the altars and crushed the Asherah poles and the images to dust, and cut down all the incense altars across the whole land of Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:22You will defile your silver-coated idols coated with silver and your gold-covered images. You will throw them away like a dirty cloth used for periods, and say to them, “out of here!”

Hosea 8:11Though Ephraim built many altars to make sin offerings, they instead became altars of sin!

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:8-29

Cautions Against Self-Righteousness; Israel Reminded of Their Rebellions. ( b. c. 1451.) 7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord . 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the… Read the whole commentary →

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