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The Golden Calf Destroyed

Name: The Golden Calf Destroyed
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: smdas0315
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Moses directs the destruction of the calf idol as armed men strike the image with axes and bring fire against its pedestal. The scene recalls Israel’s rebellion at Sinai, when the people turned from the covenant and worshiped the golden calf while Moses was on the mountain receiving the law. The broken weapons, ordered movement, and commanding gesture focus attention on the judgment of idolatry and the restoration of holy worship. In Exodus 32, Moses burns the calf, grinds it to powder, and confronts the people with the seriousness of replacing the living God with a handmade image. This artwork serves well for Bible teaching on covenant faithfulness, false worship, repentance, and the first commandments.

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Keywords	exodus golden calf idolatry moses sinai
Secondary Keywords	calf idol commandments covenant false worship judgment repentance
Tertiary Keywords	axes Bible teaching fire holy worship law of moses rebellion
Scriptures	Deuteronomy 9:16-21 Exodus 32:19-20 Exodus 32:26-28 Deuteronomy 9 16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you. 17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 18 Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. 20 And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain. Exodus 32 19 And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. 20 He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it. Exodus 32 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the LORD's side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. 27 And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell.

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The Golden Calf Destroyed

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