Let Samaria throw out his calf-idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be before the are capable of purity?
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: [that is, it was not by my approval] and of their silver and of their gold have they made them idols, that they might be cut off ( Hsa Hosea 8:4 ).