根據我們今天讀到的記載，似乎即使在撒馬黎雅首都，也存在著一個偶像——一頭牛犢，就像貝特耳神廟裡的偶像一樣。

我們並不確切知道亞述征服之前北國以色列的宗教形式。

然而，我們看到先知歐瑟亞認為這是對以色列上主的背棄，即使他們向上主獻祭，自以為是在敬拜祂。

偶像的形式正在改變他們的信仰。

禁止擁有上主的形象這項禁令中蘊含著一個重要的警告：無論我們擁有怎樣的形象，怎樣的上主觀念，都存在著敬拜偶像——精神偶像——而非上主的巨大風險。

上主唯一的形像是耶穌。

耶穌並非人手所造，祂活在我們內，並且不斷地要求我們向祂學習。

According to what we read today, it looks that even in the capital city of Samaria there was an idol, a calf, in the same way as the idol in the shrine of Betel.

We do not know exactly what the forms of the religion of the North Kingdom were, before the Assyrian conquest. However, we see that the prophet Hosea sees this as a refusal of the God of Israel, even if they offer sacrifices to him and think that they are adoring him. The form of the idol is changing their faith.

Inside the prohibition of having an imagine of God looms an important warning: whatever image, whatever idea of God we can have, the risk is great to adore an idol, a mental idol, instead of God. The only image of God is Jesus. Jesus is not a work of human hands, he is alive in us and asks us to learn from him, continually.