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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.
New American Standard Bible
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Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to
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.
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.
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 Your calf is rejected, Samaria; my anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 6 Because [it is] from Israel, an artisan made it, it [is] not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken [to] pieces. 7 Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. [The] standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. [And] if it would yield, strangers would devour it.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 23:15
Moreover, the altar which [was] in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin, had built, even that altar and the high place, [Josiah] tore down. Then he burned down the high place and crushed [the] pole of Asherah worship to dust and burned it with fire.
2 Kings 23:19
Moreover, all of the shrines of the high places which [were] in the towns of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh], Josiah removed, and he did to them like all of the deeds he had done in Bethel
2 Chronicles 31:1
And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found in the cities of Judah went out and shattered the stone pillars, cut down the Asherahs, and destroyed the high places and the altars from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh {to the very last one}. Then all the Israelites returned, each to his own property [and] to their cities.
2 Chronicles 34:6-7
And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,
Psalm 106:19-20
They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols [are] silver and gold, [the] work of human hands.
Psalm 135:15-18
The idols of the nations [are] silver and gold, [the] work of the hands of humankind.
Isaiah 44:9-20
All those who form an idol [are] nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed.
Jeremiah 10:3-9
For the statutes of the peoples [are] vanity, for it [is] a tree cut down from [the] forest, [the] work of [the] hands of a craftsman with the tool.
Jeremiah 10:14
{Everyone} is stupid, {without knowledge}, every goldsmith is ashamed by [his] divine image, for his cast image [is] an illusion, and [there is] no breath in them.
Jeremiah 43:12-13
Then he will kindle a fire in the {temples} of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. And he will wrap up the land of Egypt just as the shepherd wraps up his cloak. And he will go forth from there in peace.
Jeremiah 50:2
"Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner. Proclaim, you must not conceal [it]. Say, 'Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is filled with terror, her idols are ashamed, her idols are filled with terror.
Hosea 10:2
Their heart is false; now they must bear [their] guilt. He himself will break down their altars; he will destroy their stone pillars.
Hosea 10:5-6
The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wail over it-- over its glory because it has departed from it.
Habakkuk 2:18
What value [is] an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For [he who] fashioned his creation trusts in it, [though] making mute idols!
Acts 17:29
Therefore, [because we] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.
Acts 19:26
and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this man Paul has persuaded [and] turned away a large crowd [by] saying that the [gods] made by hands are not gods.