Psalms 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed themselves down to a molten image.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
In Context
18And a fire was kindled in their company: the flame burnt up the wicked.
20And they exchanged their glory for the similitude of an ox that eateth herbs.
Cross References
Exodus 32:4And he took them from their hand, and fashioned it in a mould, and he made of it a molten calf; and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:35And the Lord sent a plague among the people, because that they had made the calf which Aaron made.
Deuteronomy 9:12And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from here; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have become corrupted; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I have commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.
Deuteronomy 9:21And your work of sin, which ye had made, the calf, I took and burnt it in fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descendeth from the mount.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:14-34
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord . 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. 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and… Read the whole commentary →