Hosea 6:7
But you, just like Adam, broke our agreement; there you were unfaithful to me.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
In Context
6I want your true love, not your sacrifices; I want you to know me, not your burnt offerings.
8Gilead is a city of evil people where footprints are tracked in blood.
Cross References
Genesis 3:11“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?”
2 Kings 17:15They gave up on his regulations and the covenant he had made with their forefathers, as well as the decrees he had given them. They followed pointless idols and they became pointless themselves, copying the nations around them that the Lord ordered them not to copy.
Isaiah 24:5The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.
Isaiah 48:8No, you've never heard that, and you've never known that! Nobody's told you about that before! I know how deviously you operate—you're called “rebels from birth”!
Jeremiah 5:11The people of Israel and Judah have completely betrayed me, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:32It won't be like the agreement that I made with their forefathers when I held their hands and led them out of Egypt. They broke that agreement, even though I was faithful like a husband to them, declares 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 →