Bible Cross References
earrings
Exodus 32:2-4
2
Aaron said to them, "Take off the gold earrings which your wives, your sons, and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me."
3
So all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4
He took the earrings, melted them, poured the gold into a mold, and made a gold bull-calf. The people said, "Israel, this is our god, who led us out of Egypt!"
Judges 8:24-27
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But he went on to say, "Let me ask one thing of you. Every one of you give me the earrings you took." (The Midianites, like other desert people, wore gold earrings.)
25
The people answered, "We'll be glad to give them to you." They spread out a cloth, and everyone put on it the earrings that he had taken.
26
The gold earrings that Gideon got weighed over forty pounds, and this did not include the ornaments, necklaces, and purple clothes that the kings of Midian wore, nor the collars that were around the necks of their camels.
27
Gideon made an idol from the gold and put it in his hometown, Ophrah. All the Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideon and his family.
Hosea 2:13
I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The LORD has spoken.
hid them
Exodus 32:20
He took the bull-calf which they had made, melted it, ground it into fine powder, and mixed it with water. Then he made the people of Israel drink it.
Deuteronomy 7:5
So then, tear down their altars, break their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols.
Deuteronomy 7:25
Burn their idols. Do not desire the silver or gold that is on them, and do not take it for yourselves. If you do, that will be fatal, because the LORD hates idolatry.
Isaiah 2:20
When that day comes, they will throw away the gold and silver idols they have made, and abandon them to the moles and the bats.
Isaiah 30:22
You will take your idols plated with silver and your idols covered with gold, and will throw them away like filth, shouting, "Out of my sight!"
the oak
Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.
Joshua 24:26
Joshua wrote these commands in the book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak tree in the LORD's sanctuary.
Judges 9:6
Then all the men of Shechem and Bethmillo got together and went to the sacred oak tree at Shechem, where they made Abimelech king.