The Children of Israel and idol worship

When We brought the children of Israel across the sea, and they came to a people who were devoted to their idols, they said: "O Moses, make us also a god like theirs." "You are ignorant," he replied.

"These people and their ways will surely be destroyed, for false is what they practise.

"Do you want me to seek for you," he said, "a god other than God, when He has exalted you over all the nations of the world?

"Remember (the day) when He saved you from the people of Pharaoh who oppressed and afflicted you, and slew your sons and spared your women. In this was a great trial from your Lord."