Hosea 8:6

New American Bible - revised edition

An artisan made it, it is no god at all. The calf of Samaria will be dashed to pieces.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:15

Likewise the altar which was at Bethel, the high place built by Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin—this same altar and high place he tore down and burned, grinding the high place to powder and burning the asherah.

2 Kings 23:19

Josiah also removed all the temples on the high places in the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel had built, provoking the Lord; he did the very same to them as he had done in Bethel.

2 Chronicles 13:8

But now, do you think you are a match for the kingdom of the Lord led by the descendants of David, simply because you are a huge multitude and have with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods?

2 Chronicles 31:1

After all this was over, those Israelites who had been present went forth to the cities of Judah and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the asherahs, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they were all destroyed. Then the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is too stupid to know; every artisan is put to shame by his idol: He has molded a fraud, without breath of life.

Jeremiah 48:13

Chemosh shall disappoint Moab, just as the house of Israel was disappointed by Bethel, in which they trusted.

Jeremiah 50:2

Proclaim this among the nations, announce it! Announce it, do not hide it, but say: Babylon is captured, Bel put to shame, Marduk terrified; its images are put to shame, its idols shattered.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is false! Now they will pay for their guilt: God will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

Hosea 13:2

Now they continue to sin, making for themselves molten images, Silver idols according to their skill, all of them the work of artisans. “To these, offer sacrifice,” they say. People kiss calves!

Hosea 14:3

Take with you words, and return to the Lord; Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity, and take what is good. Let us offer the fruit of our lips.

Micah 1:7

All its carved figures shall be broken to pieces, all its wages shall be burned in the fire, and all its idols I will destroy. As the wages of a prostitute it gathered them, and to the wages of a prostitute they shall return.

Habakkuk 2:18

Of what use is the carved image, that its maker should carve it? Or the molten image, the lying oracle, that its very maker should trust in it, and make mute idols?

Acts 17:29

Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.

Acts 19:26

As you can now see and hear, not only in Ephesus but throughout most of the province of Asia this Paul has persuaded and misled a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.