Hosea 8:6

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This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:15 : 15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.
  • 2 Kgs 23:19 : 19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger. He did to them just as he had done at Bethel.
  • 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 When all this had been completed, all the Israelites who were present went out to the towns of Judah and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished the high places and the altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them completely. Then all the Israelites returned to their own cities, each to their own property.
  • 2 Chr 34:6-7 : 6 He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around. 7 He tore down the altars and the Asherah poles, smashed the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a calf at Horeb and worshiped a cast image. 20 They exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass.
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 6 They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell. 7 They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats. 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Ps 135:15-18 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 16 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame. 10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing? 11 Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, and the craftsmen are mere men. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will be terrified and put to shame together. 12 The blacksmith works with iron, shaping it in the coals. He hammers it with his tools and works it with the strength of his arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and becomes faint. 13 The carpenter measures out wood; he marks it with a stylus. He shapes it with chisels and marks it with a compass. He crafts it in the form of a man, a human figure, to dwell in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars or chooses a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow. 15 It becomes fuel for a man; he takes part of it to warm himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. 16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire; he roasts meat over it, eats, and is satisfied. He warms himself and says, 'Ah, I am warm; I see the fire.' 17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol, and bows down to it. He worships it and prays to it, saying, 'Save me, for you are my god.' 18 They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand. 19 No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?' 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'
  • Jer 10:3-9 : 3 For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel. 4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so it will not totter. 5 They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm—nor can they do any good. 6 There is no one like You, Lord. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power. 7 Who should not fear You, King of the nations? This is Your due. Among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like You. 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols. 9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by their idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.
  • Jer 43:12-13 : 12 I will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. He will wrap himself in the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there in peace. 13 He will smash the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn the temples of the gods of Egypt with fire.
  • Jer 50:2 : 2 Declare among the nations and proclaim it; raise a banner and proclaim it! Do not hide it. Say, 'Babylon has been captured; Bel is put to shame, Marduk is dismayed. Her idols are disgraced, her images shattered.'
  • Hos 10:2 : 2 Their hearts are divided; now they must bear their guilt. He will tear down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.
  • Hos 10:5-6 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf idol of Beth-aven. Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, who rejoiced over its glory, because it will be taken from them. 6 It will also be carried off to Assyria as a tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced, Israel will be ashamed because of its own counsel.
  • Hab 2:18 : 18 What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak.
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone—an image formed by human skill and imagination.
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not really gods.

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    3Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.

    4They set up kings, but not by me; they appointed leaders, but I did not know of it. With their silver and gold, they made idols for themselves, to their own destruction.

    5Your calf idol is rejected, Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to attain innocence?

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    5The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf idol of Beth-aven. Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, who rejoiced over its glory, because it will be taken from them.

  • 1 Kgs 12:28
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    28After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    1Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.

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  • Hos 13:2
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    2Now they continue to sin and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully crafted from their silver, all of it the work of artisans. They say about them, 'Those who sacrifice kiss the calves!'

  • Acts 7:41
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    41At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Exod 32:8
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    8They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'

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    4He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with a tool, and made it into a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

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    8Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

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    9All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame.

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    8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7For on that day each of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your hands have sinfully made.

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    8And now you think you can stand firm against the kingdom of the LORD in the hands of David’s descendants because you have a great multitude and golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

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    8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.

  • Mic 1:5-7
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    5All this is because of the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob’s transgression? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

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    7All her carved images will be broken to pieces, all her earnings will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will destroy. Since she gathered them as wages of a prostitute, they will return to the wages of a prostitute.

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  • Hos 8:7-8
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    18What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak.

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    19As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
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    18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

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    20Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

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    14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many cities. But I will send fire on their cities, and it will devour their strongholds.

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    11When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.

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    17Every human is senseless, lacking knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by their idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

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    18The men who violated my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and walked between its pieces.

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    6Now they smash all its carved work together with hatchets and hammers.

  • Isa 10:10-11
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    10Just as my hand seized the kingdoms of idols, whose carved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

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  • Ps 135:18
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    18Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.

  • Ps 106:19
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    19They made a calf at Horeb and worshiped a cast image.

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    6They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

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  • Exod 32:24
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    24So I told them, 'Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.' They gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!"

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    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

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    5The pride of Israel testifies against him; Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt, and Judah also will stumble with them.

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    13You who rejoice in nothingness and say, 'By our own strength we have taken horns for ourselves!'

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    8They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.

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    5Because they do not consider the works of the LORD or the deeds of his hands, he will tear them down and never rebuild them.