Hosea 8:6

Translations

Modern

For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

Traditional

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Literal

For it is from Israel. A workman made it, and it is not God. Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

Latin

Quia ex Israël et ipse est: artifex fecit illum, et non est deus; quoniam in aranearum telas erit vitulus Samariæ.

Original

Hebrew

English

For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

Notes

Hosea 8:5–6

your calf: Jeroboam I was the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He ruled from 931 to 910 BC. When he became king, he set up worship places in Dan and Bethel. He did this to prevent people from traveling to the temple in Jerusalem, the capital of the southern kingdom. At each site, he placed a gold calf for the people to worship (1 Kings 12:26–30).

Events

Prophecies of Hosea

Related verses

Habakkuk 2:18
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
Isaiah 44:9–20
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
Psalm 106:19–20
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
Psalm 115:4–8
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 10:3–9
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
Acts 17:29
Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
2 Kings 23:19
Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
Hosea 10:5–6
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
Psalm 135:15–18
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Acts 19:26
And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, this Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Places

Samaria: Capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel; Samaritan inhabitants

Glossary

Cattle Golden Calf Hosea, Book of

Topics

Ancient Samaria: The Whole Kingdom of Israel Sometimes Called Calf: Prophecies Against the Golden Calves at Beth-El Calves of Jeroboam: Predictions Respecting: Destruction Idolatry: Folly of Idolatry: Punishment of Banishment Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of

Hosea 8:6

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