Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

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

For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
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.

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!

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

it therefore it is not God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

but the calf
עגל 
`egel 
Usage: 35

of Samaria
שׁמרון 
Shom@rown 
Usage: 109

References

Context Readings

Israel Rejects The Good

5 He has cast off thy calf, O Samaria. MY anger is kindled against them. How long will it be ere they attain to innocence? 6 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. 7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.


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, even that altar and the high place he broke down. And he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and bu

2 Kings 23:19

And Josiah also took away all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [LORD] to anger. And he 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 broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin,

2 Chronicles 34:6-7

And [so also] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

Psalm 106:19-20

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a 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 nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Isaiah 44:9-20

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Jeremiah 10:3-9

For the customs of the peoples are vanity. For [a man] cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his 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 captive. And he shall array himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go forth from there

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 put to shame. Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame; her idols are dismayed.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is divided. Now they shall be found guilty. He will smite their altars. He will destroy their pillars.

Hosea 10:5-6

The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven. For the people of it shall mourn over it, and the priests of it, who rejoiced over it for the glory of it, because it has departed from it.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

Acts 17:29

Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

Acts 19:26

And ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this man Paul, having persuaded them, turned away a considerable multitude, saying that there are no gods made by hands.

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