Hosea 8:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition 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. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For this [calf] too is from Israel; a craftsman made it; therefore it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to shivers and go up in flames. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible The calf is from Israel, a person made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed. Catholic Public Domain Version For it is itself also from Israel: a workman made it, and it is not God. For the calf of Samaria will be used for the webs of spiders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
Moreover the altar that was at Beth–el, and the high place which Jerobo´am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
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, Josi´ah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jerobo´am made you for gods.
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in E´phra-im also and Manas´seh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth–el their confidence.
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Mer´odach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: