Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to
Holman Bible
a craftsman made it,
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
International Standard Version
Because from Israel it was fashioned by craftsmen, it is not God; therefore Samaria's calf will be broken in pieces.
A Conservative Version
For even this is from Israel: the workman made it, and it is no God. Yea, 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.
Amplified
For even this [loathsome calf] is from Israel.
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces and go up in flames.
Bible in Basic English
The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
Darby Translation
For from Israel is this also: a workman made it, and itis no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Julia Smith Translation
For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.
King James 2000
For from Israel is even this: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because [it is] from Israel, an artisan made it, it [is] not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken [to] pieces.
Modern King James verseion
For from Israel it came also. The craftsman made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the calf came from Israel; the workman made it: therefore can it be no God, but even to a spider's web shall the calf of Samaria be turned.
NET Bible
That idol was made by a workman -- it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
For, of Israel, is even that thing! A craftsman, made it, and, a No-god, it is! For, into fragments, shall the Calf of Samaria be broken.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For even it is of Israel; an artificer made it, And it is not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
Themes
Calf » Prophecies against the golden calves at beth-el
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 8:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rejects The Good
5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6 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. 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Kings 23:19
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 34:6-7
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
Psalm 106:19-20
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
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; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Jeremiah 10:3-9
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Hosea 10:2
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Hosea 10:5-6
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Acts 19:26
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: