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.]
Exodus 34:13-14
Rather ... must destroy ......... down <05422> [ye shall.]
images <04676> [images. Heb. statutes.]
worship <07812> [worship.]
name <08034> [whose.]
god ........ Jealous .... jealous God <0410 07067> [jealous God.]
Numbers 33:52
Deuteronomy 7:5
tear <05422> [destroy.]
sacred pillars ............ idols <04676 06456> [images. Heb. statues, or pillars.]
cut down <01438> [and cut.]
burn up <08313> [burn.]
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
images <06456> [graven.]
covet <02530> [thou shalt.]
ensnared <03369> [snared.]
abhorrent <08441> [an abomination.]
bring ...................... detest ... abhor <0935 08262 08581> [shalt.]
<08262> [but thou shalt.]
Deuteronomy 12:3
tear down ............... cut down <05422 01438> [ye shall.]
tear down <05422> [overthrow. Heb. break down. and burn.]
eliminate <06> [and destroy.]
Deuteronomy 12:2
destroy <06> [utterly.]
[posses. or, inherit.]
Deuteronomy 34:3-7
city .... date <05892 08558> [the city of palm.]
Zoar <06820> [Zoar.]
land <0776> [This is the land.]
see <07200> [I have caused.]
Moses <04872> [So Moses.]
died ..... land <04191 0776> [died there.]
buried <06912 01516> [he buried him.]
120 <03967> [an hundred.]
eye <05869> [his eye.]
vitality departed <05127 03893> [natural force abated. Heb. moisture fled.]
