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They are from Israel! This calf--a metalworker has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.King James Bible
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.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.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!Hosea 8:6 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThe workman made it; therefore it is not God - As God signifies the supreme eternal Good, the Creator and Upholder of all things, therefore the workman cannot make Him who made all things. This is an overwhelming argument against all idols. Nothing need be added. The workman has made them; therefore they are not God. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge from. Psalm 106:19,20 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image... the workman. Psalm 115:4-8 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands... Psalm 135:15-18 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands... Isaiah 44:9-20 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses... Jeremiah 10:3-9,14 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax... Habakkuk 2:18 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies... Acts 17:29 For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone... Acts 19:26 Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia... the calf. Hosea 10:2,5,6 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images... Jeremiah 43:12,13 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives... Jeremiah 50:2 Declare you among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken... shall. 2 Kings 23:15,19 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made... 2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces... 2 Chronicles 34:6,7 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their mattocks round about... Hosea 8:6 Parallel Commentaries
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Jeremiah 48:13 Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
Hosea 10:5 The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, those who had rejoiced over its splendor, because it is taken from them into exile.
Hosea 13:2 Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, "They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf-idols!"
Hosea 14:3 Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion."
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