CALF

Passages on this topic · 31

• Deuteronomy 9:16

  I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

• 1 Kings 12:28

  So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

• 1 Kings 12:29

  He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

• 1 Kings 12:30

  This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.

• 1 Kings 12:31

  He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

• 1 Kings 12:32

  Jeroboam 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.

• 1 Kings 12:33

  He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

• 1 Kings 13:1

  Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Beth El; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

• 1 Kings 13:2

  He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”

• 1 Kings 13:3

  He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

• 1 Kings 13:4

  When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.

• 1 Kings 13:5

  The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.

• 1 Kings 13:32

  For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”

• 2 Kings 10:29

  However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.

• 2 Kings 23:4

  The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 23:16

  As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

• 2 Kings 23:17

  Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

• 2 Kings 23:18

  He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

• 2 Kings 23:19

  All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:20

  He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

• Nehemiah 9:18

  Yes, when they had made themselves a molten calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;

• Psalms 106:19

  They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

• Jeremiah 48:13

  Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

• Hosea 8:5

  Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

• Hosea 8:6

  For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

• Hosea 10:5

  The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

• Hosea 10:6

  It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

• Hosea 14:2

  Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

• Micah 6:6

  How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

• Acts 7:41

  They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.