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Judges 9:6
All the leaders of Shechem and all Beth millo assembled together, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the memorial stone which was in Shechem.
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Joshua 24:25-26
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
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Judges 8:24-27
Yet Gideon said to them,“ I would request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.”( For they had gold earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)And they said,“ We will certainly give them to you.” So they spread out a garment, and every one of them tossed an earring there from his plunder.The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, apart from the crescent amulets, the ear pendants, and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and apart from the neck chains that were on their camels’ necks.Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah; but all Israel committed infidelity with it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
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Hosea 2:13
I will punish her for the days of the Baals When she used to offer sacrifices to them And adorn herself with her nose ring and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares the Lord.
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Exodus 32:20
Then he took the calf which they had made and completely burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.
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Isaiah 2:20
On that day people will throw away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,
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Deuteronomy 7:5
But this is what you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the fire.
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Deuteronomy 7:25
The carved images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be trapped by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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Isaiah 30:22
And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to them,“ Be gone!”
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Exodus 32:2-4
Aaron said to them,“ Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”So all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.Then he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a cast metal calf; and they said,“ This is your god, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”