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Anonymous fully clothed priestly and ordinary adult figures face a small gilded calf idol being prepared for removal, grief restrained, no known named people or actual deity.
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Hosea 10:5

Mourning the Calf

Break Up the Unplowed Ground · Hosea 10

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

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5The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calves of Beth-aven, because its people mourn over it, and its idolatrous priests wail over it, over its glory, because it has departed from it.

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