Hosea 8:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For, or because, from Israel, by their invention and authority, was it also, both the idol and the worship of it. The workman, the founder, silversmith, or goldsmith, made it; fashioned the calf. Therefore it is not God; you are sottish fools to think it is a god: if the making it will not convince you it is no god, yet I hope the destroying it will prove, whatever it was made for, or whatever thought to be, yet it was not, nor could it ever be, a god. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces; but when the idol is broken into pieces, Samaria shall see it was but a calf, and confess their folly in worshipping it; however, the destruction of it will be a perpetual witness of Samaria's sin, and God's just displeasure in its ruin.