40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods to go before us. For we do not know what has become of this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt.’
41 So they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
42 But God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘O House of Israel, have you offered to Me slain animals and sacrificesfor forty years in the wilderness?
43 Yes, you even raised the shrine of Moloch,and the star of your god Remphan,idols which you made to worship;therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.’
44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, telling Moses to make it as He had commanded, according to the pattern that he had seen,
45 which our fathers, having received it, brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, whom God drove out in front of our fathers until the days of David,
46 who found favor in the presence of God and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.