“And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the Lord.”
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord. Aaron's attempt to hold onto the name of the Lord while giving the people the idol they demanded is one of Scripture's most instructive failures. The correct name applied to a fundamentally incorrect act: this is precisely what the second commandment prohibits — not denial of God's name but its application to an idol. Amos 5:21–23 records God rejecting Israel's religious festivals because the worship was attached to the wrong object. Aaron's announcement of a festival to the Lord is the invention of what Jeroboam will later institutionalize as state religion.
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