Exodus 32:20
took ... calf <05695 03947> [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 lamin‘, 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.
Israelites <01121> [made the.]
Isaiah 2:18-21
worthless idols <0457> [the idols.]
completely eliminated <03632 02498> [he shall utterly abolish. or, shall utterly pass away.]
go <0935> [And they.]
ground ...................... earth <06083 0776> [earth. Heb. dust. for fear.]
rises <06965> [when he.]
throw <07993> [cast.]
[his idols of silver. Heb. the idols of his silver, etc.]
made ..... worship <06213 07812> [each one for himself to. or, for him to.]
go into <0935> [go.]
Isaiah 30:22
desecrate <02930> [defile.]
silver-plated idols <03701 06456> [thy graven images of silver. Heb. the graven images of thy silver.]
throw ... away <02219> [cast. Heb. scatter. as a.]
Get out <03318> [Get.]
Isaiah 31:7
time <03117> [in that.]
[his idols of gold. Heb. the idols of his gold. for a sin.]
Hosea 8:11
many <07235> [many.]
altars ........ altars <04196> [altars.]
