Deuteronomy 9:21

Hebrew Bible

20 The Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too. 21 As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain. 22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah.

2 Kings 23:15

Hebrew Bible

14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones. 15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust, including the Asherah pole. 16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it, just as in the Lord’s message that was announced by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. Then the king turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

 Notes and References

"... Josiah’s religious reforms following the reading of the scroll of the Torah have connections to D as well. According to D, Moses burns the golden calf and grinds it “thin as dust” (Deuteronomy 9:21). According to the Deuteronomistic history, at the site of Jeroboam’s golden calf Josiah burns the high place “and made it thin as dust” (2 Kings 23:15). In the Hebrew Bible, the phrase “thin as dust” occurs only in the Moses and Josiah contexts. Moreover, when the Deuteronomistic history tells the story of Jeroboam’s setting up the golden calf, it says that a man of God comes and proclaims that a king descended from David will some day ruin that altar, and it adds: “Josiah is his name!” (1 Kings 13:2) ..."

Friedman, Richard Elliott The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View Into the Five Books of Moses (p. 25) Harper San Francisco, 2005

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