Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean? 6 For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces. 7 For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 23:15
And also the altar which was in the house of God, the height which Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin, made, also that altar and height he broke down and he will burn the height, and he beat small to dust, and he burnt the image.
2 Kings 23:19
And also all the houses of the heights which were in the cities of Shomeron which the kings of Israel made to irritate, Josiah turned away, and he will do to them according to all the doings which he did in the house of God.
2 Chronicles 31:1
And as all this was finished, all Israel being found will go forth to the cities of Judah, and they will break the images and cut off the statues and tear down the heights, and the altars of all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh even to finishing. And all the sons of Israel will turn back each to his possession to their cities.
2 Chronicles 34:6-7
And in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim, and Simeon, and even to Naphtali he proved their houses round about
Psalm 106:19-20
They will make a calf in Horeb, and they will worship to the molten image.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.
Psalm 135:15-18
The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.
Isaiah 44:9-20
They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.
Jeremiah 10:3-9
For the laws of the peoples, this vanity: for they cut down a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
Jeremiah 10:14
Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.
Jeremiah 43:12-13
And I kindled a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he burnt them and carried them away captive: and he covered himself with the land of Egypt as the shepherd will cover himself with his garment; and he will go forth from thence in peace.
Jeremiah 50:2
Announce ye in the nations, and cause to be heard, and lift up a signal; cause to be heard, ye shall not hide: say, Babel was taken, Bel was ashamed, Merodach was broken; her images were ashamed, her blocks were broken.
Hosea 10:2
Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images
Hosea 10:5-6
For the calves of the house of vanity they shall fear dwelling in Shomeron: for his people mourned over it, and his priests will exult over it, for its glory, for it was removed from it
Habakkuk 2:18
What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?
Acts 17:29
Being therefore the posterity of God, we ought not to think gold, or silver, or stone, an engraving of art, or meditation of man, the divinity to be like.
Acts 19:26
And ye see and hear that not only Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, changed a sufficient crowd, saying, that they are not gods made by hands: