Book of Hosea Chapter 8 Vs. 6

 Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. Hos. 8:6

from Israel was... That is, the calf originated with them, not from Me. It also, as well as their kings set up by them, but not by Me (Hosea 8:4).

the workman made... The founder, silversmith, or goldsmith, made it, and fashioned the calf.

therefore, it is... You are drunken 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.

calf of Samaria... This was one of the golden calves which Jeroboam made to be placed in Bethel and Dan as gods of Israel, or another one like them, made later (2Kgs. 12:1-21:26-33). 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.

We have mentioned over and over in these lessons, that things you can see with your natural eye that have been made with human hands are not God. The Creator of it all is God, not His creation. God is Spirit.

John 4:24 "God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth."

He is the Great I Am. He is the self-existing One. The idol of the calf shall be destroyed.

For from Israel is it also-as much as the puppet-kings; a workman made it, and no god is it. Yea, splinters shall the Calf of Samaria become. Splinters shall everything in Israel become.

The calf-idol (Hos. 8:5) was a product of a human craftsman’s skill; how, then, could it be considered a god? (Cf. Isa. 40:18-20; 44:9-20.) The words, it is not God, were probably meant to refute Jeroboam, who said of the calves, here are your gods, O Israel (1Kgs. 12:28; cf. Exo. 32:4). The destruction of this image would demonstrate the futility of idolatry.