Psalms 106:20
Instead of worshiping our glorious God, they started to worship a statue of a bull that eats grass!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
In Context
19Then the Israeli leaders made a gold statue at Sinai Mountain and worshiped it.
21They forgot about God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt.
Cross References
Exodus 20:4You must not carve/make for yourselves any idol that represents anything in the sky or that is on the ground or that is in the water under the ground/earth.
Psalms 89:17You give us your glorious strength; because you act in our favor, we defeat [MET] our enemies.
Jeremiah 2:11The people of no other nation have ever [RHQ] abandoned their gods that they thought were glorious and started to worship gods that are not really gods, but you people have abandoned me, your glorious God, and are worshiping gods that are useless.
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 →