And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Exodus 32:4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Proverbs 17:3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.