For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; Indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
The calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces - The calves were set up at Bethel and at Dan, but they were the sort of tutelar deity of the ten tribes; therefore they are called “the calf of Samaria.” They represented one and the same thing; from where they are called as one, the calf, not “calves.” A thing of nought it was in its origin, for it had its form and shape from man; a thing of nought it should be in its end, for it should be “broken in pieces,” or become “chips, fragments,” for fire.