Hosea 8:5 “He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How…”

Hosea 8:5

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

World English Bible

Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

American Standard Version

He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy calfe, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: howe long will they be without innocencie!

Darby Translation

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity?

Young's Literal Translation

Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

Bible in Basic English

I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

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Cross references

“calf”

Hosea 10:5 Hosea 8:6 Isaiah 45:20 Acts 7:41

Hosea 10:5 · BSB

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.

Hosea 8:6 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 45:20 · BSB

Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

Acts 7:41 · BSB

At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

“mine”

Deuteronomy 32:22 2 Kings 17:16–18 2 Kings 17:21–23

Deuteronomy 32:22 · BSB

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

2 Kings 17:16–18 · BSB

They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:21–23 · BSB

When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.

“how”

Jeremiah 13:27 Proverbs 1:22 Jeremiah 4:14

Jeremiah 13:27 · BSB

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

Proverbs 1:22 · BSB

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Jeremiah 4:14 · BSB

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

6For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

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