Exo 32:20, Judg 6:31, 17:4-5, 1Sa 4:11, 6:2-9, 2Ki 19:18-19, Isa 46:1-2, 7 | TSK | STEP | 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 De 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 laminæ, 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. made the.

Exodus 32:20

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 De 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 laminæ, 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.

De 7:5,25; 9:21; 2Ki 23:6,15

made the.

Pr 1:31; 14:14

Judges 6:31

Will ye plead.The words are very emphatic: "Will ye plead in earnest ({tereevoon}) for Baal? Will ye really save ({tosheeoon}) him? If he be God, ({Elohim,}) let him contend for himself, seeing his altar is thrown down."

Ex 23:2; Nu 14:6; Eph 5:11

let him be.

De 13:5-18; 17:2-7; 1Ki 18:40

if he be.

1Ki 18:27,29; Ps 115:4-7; Isa 41:23; 46:1,7; Jer 10:5,11; 1Co 8:4

Judges 17:4-5

two hundred.

Isa 46:6,7; Jer 10:9,10

an house of gods. or, as baith Elohim may also signify, "ahouse of God."

18:24; Ge 31:30; Ezr 1:7; Ho 8:14

ephod.

8:27; 18:14; Ex 28:4,15; 1Sa 23:6

teraphim.

Ge 31:19,30; *marg:

Ho 3:4

consecrated. Heb. filled the hand.

Ex 29:9; 1Ki 12:31; 13:33,34; Heb 5:4

his sons.

Ex 24:5

1 Samuel 4:11

the ark.

2:32; Ps 78:61

the two sons.

2:34; Ps 78:64; Isa 3:11

were slain. Heb. died.

1 Samuel 6:2-9

called.

Ge 41:8; Ex 7:11; Isa 47:12,13; Da 2:2; 5:7; Mt 2:4

wherewith.

Mic 6:6-9

empty.

Ex 23:15; 34:20; De 16:16

a trespass.

Le 5:6,15-19; 6:6; 7:1-7

known.

9; 5:7,9,11; Job 10:2; 34:31,32

Five golden.

5,17,18; 5:6,9; Ex 12:35; Jos 13:3; Jud 3:3

you all. Heb. them.

mice.Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals. William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice, which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops. It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his circumstances, which he offers to his god.

Ex 8:5,17,24; 10:14,15; Joe 1:4-7; 2:25

give glory.

Jos 7:19; Ps 18:44; 66:3; *marg:

Isa 42:12; Jer 3:13; 13:16; Mal 2:2; Joh 9:24; Re 11:13; 16:9

lighten.

5:6,11; Ps 32:4; 39:10

off your.

5:3,4,7; Ex 12:12; Nu 33:4; Isa 19:1

harden.

Job 9:4; Ps 95:8; Ro 2:5; Heb 3:13

the Egyptians.

Ex 7:13; 8:15; 9:16,34; 10:3; 14:17,23; 15:14-16

wonderfully. or, reproachfully. did they not.

Ex 12:31-33

the people. Heb. them.

new cart.

2Sa 6:3; 1Ch 13:7

on which.

Nu 19:2

jewels.

4,5

Beth-shemesh.

Jos 15:10; 21:16

he. or, it.

Am 3:6

we shall.

not his hand.

Isa 26:11

a chance.

2Sa 1:6; Ec 9:11; Lu 10:31

2 Kings 19:18-19

have cast. Heb. have given.

2Sa 5:21; Isa 46:1,2

for they were.

Ps 115:4-8; Isa 37:18,19; 44:9-20; Jer 10:3-9,14-16; Ac 17:29

O Lord.

Ex 9:15,16; Jos 7:9; 1Sa 17:45-47; 1Ki 8:43; 18:36,37; 20:28

Ps 67:1,2; 83:18; Da 4:34-37

Isaiah 46:1-2

1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves.

3 God saves his people to the end.

5 Idols are not comparable to God for power,

12 or present salvation.

Bel.Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.

21:9; 41:6,7; Ex 12:12; 1Sa 5:3; Jer 48:1-25; 50:2; 51:44,47,52

a burden.

2:20; Jer 10:5

they could.

36:18,19; 37:12,19; 44:17; 45:20

but.

Jud 18:17,18,24; 2Sa 5:21; Jer 43:12,13; 48:7

themselves are. Heb. their soul is.

Isaiah 46:7

they carry him.

1Sa 5:3; Jer 10:5; Da 3:1

one shall cry.

37:38; 45:20; Jud 10:12-14; 1Ki 18:26,40; Jer 2:28; Jon 1:5,14-16