Cross references
Hosea 8:6
For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
It will be broken to pieces,
that calf of Samaria.
Hosea 8:6 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Habakkuk 2:18 (4 votes) and Psalm 106:19–20 (3 votes). 31 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from 1 Kings 12 to Acts 19.
Which verses does Hosea 8:6 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Habakkuk 2:184 votes
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- Psalm 106:19–203 votes
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image. They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
- Psalm 115:4–83 votes
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; …
- Isaiah 44:9–203 votes
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame. Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? …
- Jeremiah 10:3–93 votes
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman. They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter. …
- Jeremiah 10:143 votes
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- 2 Kings 23:152 votes
He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
- 2 Kings 23:192 votes
Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
- 2 Chronicles 31:12 votes
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
- 2 Chronicles 34:6–72 votes
Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them. He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- Psalm 135:15–182 votes
- Jeremiah 43:12–132 votes
- Jeremiah 50:22 votes
- Hosea 10:22 votes
Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
- Hosea 10:5–62 votes
- Acts 17:292 votes
- Acts 19:262 votes
Which verses point to Hosea 8:6?
The 10 strongest of 31.