Hosea 8:6

Israel made the thing: a workman made it. It is not a god! Samaria’s calf will become mere splinters.

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In The 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.

In Context

5Your calf idol, O Samaria, is distasteful. My anger is kindled against them. How long will they escape punishment?

7They sow the wind and will reap the whirlwind. A shoot which has no stalk, yields no fruit If it should yield, strangers would devour it.

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Cross References

Psalms 106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image.

Psalms 135:15The idols of heathen are silver made by human hands.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 8:2-8

Sin and Punishment of Israel; Crimes Charged against Israel; Sottish Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 745.) 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord , because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they… Read the whole commentary →

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