Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 106:20

20. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass .

As far as in them lay, and in respect of their Worship.

Their God, who was indeed their glory; for they had this just occasion of triumphing and glorying over all the Nations of the World; that whereas all other Nations worshipped stocks and stones, or the heavenly Bodies, or dead Men, they only worshipped the living true God, who was present and in Covenant with them, and with them only.

Into the Golden Image of an Ox or Calf.

Which is so far from feeding his People, as the true God did the Israelites, that he must be fed by them. And yet the Image of such a creature was preferred by them, before the all-sufficient and everblessed God, which was an evidence of their horrid contempt of God, as also of their prodigious folly and stupidity.

Marginal references: Jer. 2. 11. [illegible: 1 word]. 1. 23.