The form that Israelite idolatry took in the wilderness (Ex. 32: 4; Deut. 9: 12-21), and later on under Jeroboam and his successors (1 Kgs. 12: 28, 32-33; 2 Kgs. 10: 29; 2 Chr. 11: 15; 2 Chr. 13: 8; Hosea 8: 5-6; Hosea 13: 2). Under this symbol they professed to worship Jehovah, but such worship naturally soon degenerated into a worship of the image itself.