took the calf.

Exodus 9:21
but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.

Deuteronomy 7:5, 25
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:21
And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

2 Kings 23:6, 15
He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people. . . .

made the

Proverbs 1:31
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart will have the fill of his own ways, but a good man will be rewarded for his.