The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.
"Calves..." "This word is in the feminine gender, in order to express contempt for those idols Jeroboam had set up."[13]  They were she-bulls! The Hebrew text of the Old Testament has "heifers."[14]  There is also a hint here of the homosexuality that surfaces later in the chapter.