Exodus 32:5

Aaron builds an altar before the golden calf and proclaims a feast to Yahweh, blending true worship with idolatry. It warns that calling sin by God's name does not make it acceptable.

Cross-references · 16

• 2 Kgs 10:20Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.
• Lev 23:2“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
• Lev 23:37“‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;
• Hos 8:14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
• 1 Sam 14:35Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.
• Exod 12:14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 2 Kgs 16:11Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.
• Hos 8:11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
• Exod 32:4He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
• 1 Kgs 12:32–33Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
• Lev 23:4“‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
• 1 Kgs 21:9She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
• 2 Chr 30:5So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.
• Lev 23:21You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Exod 10:9Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”

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