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The gold bull worshiped in Samaria will be smashed to pieces! </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/hosea/8-6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/hosea/8-6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/hosea/8-6.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/1.htm">Hosea</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/8.htm">Chapter 8</a> > Verse 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/8-5.htm" title="Hosea 8:5">◄</a> Hosea 8:6 <a href="../hosea/8-7.htm" title="Hosea 8:7">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/hosea/8.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/hosea/8.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />An Israelite craftsman made the idol, and it is not a god at all! The gold bull worshiped in Samaria will be smashed to pieces! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/8.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For it is from Israel, an artisan made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/hosea/8.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Someone from Israel built that idol for you, but only I am God. And so it will be smashed to pieces. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/8.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />An artisan made it, it is no god at all. The calf of Samaria will be dashed to pieces. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/hosea/8.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.</p><p class="hdg">from.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/106-19.htm">Psalm 106:19,20</a> They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . . </p><p class="hdg">the workman.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/115-4.htm">Psalm 115:4-8</a> The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/135-15.htm">Psalm 135:15-18</a> The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/44-9.htm">Isaiah 44:9-20</a> The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/10-3.htm">Jeremiah 10:3-9,14</a> For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../habakkuk/2-18.htm">Habakkuk 2:18</a> What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/17-29.htm">Acts 17:29</a> Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/19-26.htm">Acts 19:26</a> And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.</p><p class="hdg">the calf.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/10-2.htm">Hosea 10:2,5,6</a> Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/43-12.htm">Jeremiah 43:12,13</a> And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/50-2.htm">Jeremiah 50:2</a> Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.</p><p class="hdg">shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/23-15.htm">2 Kings 23:15,19</a> Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/31-1.htm">2 Chronicles 31:1</a> And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/34-6.htm">2 Chronicles 34:6,7</a> And in the cities of Manasses, and of Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Nephtali he demolished all. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/hosea/8.htm">Israel will Reap the Whirlwind</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed? <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl">For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.</span><span class="reftext">7</span>For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/48-13.htm">Jeremiah 48:13</a></span><br />And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/10-5.htm">Hosea 10:5</a></span><br />The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the calf of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/13-2.htm">Hosea 13:2</a></span><br />And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/14-3.htm">Hosea 14:3</a></span><br />Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm">Artificer</a> <a href="/daniel/2-34.htm">Bits</a> <a href="/hosea/8-1.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/hosea/8-5.htm">Calf</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-9.htm">Craftsman</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-34.htm">Fragments</a> <a href="/hosea/7-15.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/hosea/8-3.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/8-5.htm">Ox</a> <a href="/hosea/6-5.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/hosea/8-5.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/hosea/8-5.htm">Sama'ria</a> <a href="/psalms/29-5.htm">Shivers</a> <a href="/hosea/6-9.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-9.htm">Workman</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hebrews/11-10.htm">Artificer</a> <a href="/amos/6-11.htm">Bits</a> <a href="/hosea/10-2.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Calf</a> <a href="/revelation/18-22.htm">Craftsman</a> <a href="/amos/6-11.htm">Fragments</a> <a href="/hosea/9-12.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/hosea/8-8.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Ox</a> <a href="/hosea/10-14.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/hosea/10-5.htm">Sama'ria</a> <a href="/revelation/2-27.htm">Shivers</a> <a href="/hosea/9-12.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-18.htm">Workman</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/hosea/8-6.htm">Hosea 8:6 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a are be broken calf craftsman even For from God has in is Israel it made not of pieces Samaria so Surely that the They This to will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hosea/8-6.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 8:6 For this is even from Israel! 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