They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
This psalm shows God's boundless goodness toward His people, yet it confesses that they repaid His kindness with rank ingratitude, idolatry, and rebellion from the very start. The Psalmist begins with praise precisely so that we would dare to ask pardon for such shameful abuse of His covenant mercies.
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Commenting on Psalm 106:1-48
They made a calf in Horeb. In the very place where they had solemnly pledged themselves to obey the Lord they broke the second, if not the first, of his commandments, and set up the Egyptian symbol of the ox, and bowed before it.
They forgot His works so quickly that they denied the conclusions as confidently as if they'd never seen the premises proved. They made haste instead of waiting for His counsel, their expectations outrunning His promises, and so they quarreled with every difficulty in their path.
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Commenting on Psalm 106:13-33