Hosea 8:6 “For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God.…”

Hosea 8:6

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

American Standard Version

For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Geneva Bible 1599

For it came euen from Israel: the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Darby Translation

For from Israel is this also: — a workman made it, and it is no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be [broken in] pieces.

Young's Literal Translation

For even it [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

Bible in Basic English

The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

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Cross references

“from”

Psalm 106:19 Psalm 106:20

Psalm 106:19 · BSB

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

Psalm 106:20 · BSB

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

“the workman”

Habakkuk 2:18 Psalm 115:4–8 Isaiah 44:9–20 Jeremiah 10:3–9 Jeremiah 10:14 Psalm 135:15–18

Habakkuk 2:18 · BSB

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.

Psalm 115:4–8 · BSB

Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

Isaiah 44:9–20 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 10:3–9 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 10:14 · BSB

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.

Psalm 135:15–18 · BSB

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

“the calf”

Hosea 10:2 Jeremiah 50:2 Hosea 10:5 Hosea 10:6 Jeremiah 43:12 Jeremiah 43:13

Hosea 10:2 · BSB

Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

Jeremiah 50:2 · BSB

“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 pi…

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 10:6 · BSB

Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.

Jeremiah 43:12 · BSB

I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garm…

Jeremiah 43:13 · BSB

He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”

“shall”

2 Kings 23:15 2 Kings 23:19 2 Chronicles 31:1 2 Chronicles 34:6 2 Chronicles 34:7

2 Kings 23:15 · BSB

He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

2 Kings 23:19 · BSB

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.

2 Chronicles 31:1 · BSB

When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjami…

2 Chronicles 34:6 · BSB

Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.

2 Chronicles 34:7 · BSB

He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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

In context

5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

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