Acts 7:41

Acts 7:41

39 whom our fathers ^awould not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

40 ^asaying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

41 ^aAnd they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and ^brejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42 Then ^aGod turned and gave them up to worship ^bthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
^c‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?

43 You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And ^aI will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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They made a calf (emosxopoihsan). First aorist active indicative of mosxopoiew, here only in the N.T. and unknown elsewhere. The LXX (Exodus 32:3) has epoihse mosxon from which phrase the word is evidently made. Aaron made the calf, but so did the people (Exodus 32:35).

The idol (tw eidwlw). Stephen calls it by the right name. The people said it was their way of worshipping Jehovah! So the Egyptians worshipped the bull Apis at Memphis as the symbol of Osiris (the sun). They had another sacred bull Mnevis at Leontopolis. Eidwlon (from eidov, form or figure) is the image or likeness of anything. The heathen worship the god through the image or idol.

Rejoiced (eufrainonto). Imperfect, middle, kept on rejoicing (Exodus 32:6, Exodus 32:18) or making merry.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 7:41:**

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