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Small handmade gilded calf idol on a stone shelf with cold light revealing rough seams, no worshiper kissing, no actual living calf as God.
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Hosea 8:5

The Rejected Calf

Sowing Wind, Reaping the Whirlwind · Hosea 8

Story guide: Prophetic illustration grounded in the verse; national designations and metaphors are not newly narrated events.

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5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria; my anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

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