took the calf: How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear, when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to powder, and strewed on the water! Some have asked, how gold, the most ductile and ponderous of all metals, could have been stamped into dust, and strewed on the water. In Deuteronomy 9:21, this is fully explained. I took, says Moses, your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire; that is, melted it down, probably into ingots or gross plates, and stamped it, beat it into thin lamine, something like our gold leaf, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust, which might be very easily done by the action of the hands, when beat into thin plates or leaves as the original words ekkoth, and dak, imply. Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25, Deuteronomy 9:21, 2 Kings 23:6, 2 Kings 23:15
made the: Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 14:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 35:4 - hid them Exodus 23:24 - overthrow Judges 18:17 - the graven 1 Kings 15:13 - and burnt 2 Kings 11:18 - brake they 1 Chronicles 14:12 - were burned 2 Chronicles 15:16 - cut down 2 Chronicles 34:4 - made dust Isaiah 37:19 - And have Acts 17:16 - his spirit Acts 19:19 - and burned