Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
A
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.
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
Topics
Interlinear
Charash
'elohiym
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 8:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rejects The Good
5
Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast thee off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.
6
A
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 23:15
Likewise, the altar that was at Bethel and the high place which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made: both that altar and the high place he broke 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 went out, those that were present, to the cities of Judah and broke 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 sons of Israel returned, each man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 34:6-7
He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their swords 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 Gentiles are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 44:9-20
Those that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and that which is most precious to them is useful for nothing; and they are their own witnesses that they do not see, nor understand; therefore, they shall be ashamed.
Jeremiah 10:3-9
For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is carnal in his knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.
Jeremiah 43:12-13
And I will put fire to 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 puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.
Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the Gentiles, and publish, and set up a banner; publish, and do not conceal: 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 has wandered; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall destroy their statues.
Hosea 10:5-6
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn because of the calf, and the religious persons thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, which shall be made to vanish away.
Habakkuk 2:18
Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?
Acts 17:29
Being therefore of the lineage of God, we ought not to think that which is Divine is like unto gold or silver or stone, bearing the mark of art and man's imagination.
Acts 19:26
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands