Hosea 8:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Someone from Israel built that idol for you, but only I am God. And so it will be smashed to pieces.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:15

But Josiah had not finished yet. At Bethel he destroyed the shrine and the altar that Jeroboam son of Nebat had built and that had caused the Israelites to sin. Josiah had the shrine and the Asherah pole burnt and ground into dust.

2 Kings 23:19

Some of the Israelite kings had made the LORD angry by building pagan shrines all over Israel. So Josiah sent troops to destroy these shrines just as he had done to the one in Bethel.

2 Chronicles 13:8

Now you and your powerful army think you can stand up to the kingdom that the LORD has given to David's descendants. The only gods you have are those gold statues of calves that Jeroboam made for you.

2 Chronicles 31:1

After the Festival, the people went to every town in Judah and smashed the stone images of foreign gods and cut down the sacred poles for worshipping the goddess Asherah. They destroyed all the local shrines and foreign altars in Judah, as well as those in the territories of Benjamin, Ephraim, and West Manasseh. Then everyone went home.

Jeremiah 10:14

People who make idols are so stupid! They will be disappointed, because their false gods are not alive.

Jeremiah 48:13

Then you will be ashamed, because your god Chemosh cannot save you, just as Bethel could not help the Israelites.

Hosea 10:2

You are deceitful and disloyal. So you will pay for your sins, because the LORD will destroy your altars and images.

Hosea 13:2

Now you continue to sin by designing and making idols of silver in the shape of calves. You are told to sacrifice to these idols— yes, even to kiss them.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria can't save us, and chariots can't help. So we will no longer worship the idols we have made. Our LORD, you show mercy to orphans.”

Micah 1:7

Samaria's idols will be smashed, and the wages of temple prostitutes will be destroyed by fire. Silver and gold from those idols will then be used by foreigners as payment for prostitutes.

Habakkuk 2:18

What is an idol worth? It's merely a false god. Why trust a speechless image made from wood or metal by human hands?

Acts 17:29

Since we are God's children, we must not think that he is like an idol made out of gold or silver or stone. He isn't like anything that humans have thought up and made.

Acts 19:26

But you have seen and heard how this man Paul is upsetting a lot of people, not only in Ephesus, but almost everywhere in Asia. He claims that the gods we humans make are not really gods at all.