Exodus 20:23
20:23 You must not make gods of silver alongside me,
nor make gods of gold for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 9:16
9:16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the
Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf;
you had quickly turned aside from the way he
had commanded you!
Psalms 106:19-21
106:19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
106:20 They traded their majestic God
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
106:21 They rejected the God who delivered them,
the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,
Isaiah 44:9-10
44:9 All who form idols are nothing;
the things in which they delight are worthless.
Their witnesses cannot see;
they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
44:10 Who forms a god and casts an idol
that will prove worthless?
Isaiah 46:6
46:6 Those who empty out gold from a purse
and weigh out silver on the scale
hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god.
They then bow down and worship it.
Acts 7:41
7:41 At
that time
they made an idol in the form of a calf,
brought
a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing
in the works of their hands.
Acts 17:29
17:29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity
is like gold or silver or stone, an image
made by human
skill
and imagination.