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Apis the Sacred Bull of Egypt
After the Israelites were delivered from Egypt, Moses came down from the mountain and found Aaron had set up a golden calf or young bull, that the people might worship God in this form. When the northern kingdom of Israel divided from their brothers in the south, Jeroboam introduced bull worship and set up two idols, one at Bethel and the other at Dan. "God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a
bull."
"And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
"Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and
said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy
gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set
the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan." Isaiah 51:20 - Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. The Bible mentions a lot regarding "Bulls"
Psalms 68:30 - Rebuke
the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the people, [till every one] submit himself with
pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war. |
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