Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."
"Molten images ..." Not only is this a reference to a clear and specific commandment in the Decalogue, the very word for molten image here is "Masseka," exactly the same word used in Exodus for the golden calf. "Figurines on the model of the bull-image were being struck for use in private and public ritual."[5]  It is clearly the calf-worship of the old Canaanite paganism that is in view here.