Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence? 6  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. 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up.


Cross References

2 Kings 23:15

Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, 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 broke down, and burned the high place, and crushed it to powder, and burned the idol pole.

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 Beth-el.

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the sacred pillars in pieces, and cut down the idol poles, 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, in their ruins round about.

Psalm 106:19-20

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

Isaiah 44:9-20

They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious 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 cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is senseless in his knowledge: every goldsmith is put to shame 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 puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare you 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 guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.

Hosea 10:5-6

The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, for its glory has departed from it.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profits the graven image that its maker has shaped it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

Acts 17:29

Therefore then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Acts 19:26

Moreover you 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 no gods, which are made with hands:

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