Hosea 6:7

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

In Context

6Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

8Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:11And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

2 Kings 17:15And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Isaiah 24:5The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

Isaiah 48:8Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

Jeremiah 5:11For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:32Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:5-11

Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 758.) 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there… Read the whole commentary →

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