Hosea 6:7
But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
In Context
8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.
Cross References
Genesis 3:11And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
Isaiah 24:5And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 48:8Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest ever deal treacherously, and thou wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 31:32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
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 →