Hosea 8:6

They are from Yisroel! 1 The craftsman made it; 1 therefore it is not Elohim; 1 but the egel of Shomron shall be broken in pieces. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

5Thy egel (calf-idol), O Shomron, I am casting off; 1 Mine anger is kindled against them; 1 how long will they be incapable of nikkayon (innocency, freedom from punishment)? 1

7For they have sown the wind, 1 and they shall reap the whirlwind; 1 the stalk [of standing grain] hath no tzemach (shoot); 1 it shall yield no kemach (flour); 1 and even if it yielded it, zarim would devour it. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:19And all the batim (houses, shrines) also of the high places that were in the towns of Shomron, which the Melachim of Yisroel had made to provoke Hashem to anger, Yoshiyah removed, and did to them according to all the ma'asim that he had done in Beit-El.

2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was completed, kol Yisroel that were present went out to the towns of Yehudah, and smashed the matzevot, and cut down the Asherim, and threw down the high places and the mizbechot throughout kol Yehudah and Binyamin, in Ephrayim also and Menasheh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Bnei Yisroel returned, every ish to his achuzzah, into their own towns.

Psalms 106:19They made an egel (a calf) in Chorev, 1 and worshiped a massekhah (molden image). 1

Psalms 135:15The idols of the Goyim are kesef and zahav, 1 the ma'aseh yedei adam. 1

Jeremiah 10:3For the [religious] chukkot (customs, statutes) of the nations are vain delusions; 1 for one cutteth etz out of the ya'ar (forest), 1 the ma'aseh (handiwork) of the hands of the charash (workman, artisan), with the axe. 1

Jeremiah 10:14Kol Adam is stupid in his da'as; 1 every goldsmith is shamed by the pesel (idol); 1 for his nesekh (molten image) is sheker, 1 and there is no ruach in them. 1

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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