Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
] Made of a melted liquid, whether gold, or silver, or brass,
poured into a mould; and though graven images are not mentioned,
they are included, a part being put for the whole, as appears not
only from the injunction to break images in general, whether
graven or molten, ( Exodus 34:13
) but from the second command, which expressly forbids the making
and worshipping of them; but "molten" ones are particularly
mentioned, because it is probable they were chiefly such the
Canaanites worshipped, and especially, because the calf the
Israelites had lately made and worshipped was a molten one.