Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of evil people where footprints are tracked in blood.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
In Context
7But you, just like Adam, broke our agreement; there you were unfaithful to me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:27When Abner arrived back in Hebron, Joab took him aside into the town gatehouse as if he was going to talk with him in private. But Joab stabbed him in the belly, killing him in revenge for killing Joab's brother Asahel.
1 Kings 2:5In addition, you know what Joab, son of Zeruiah, did to me and what he did to Abner, son of Ner, and Amasa, son of Jether, the two army commanders of Israel. He murdered them, spilling the blood of war during a time of peace. He smeared the blood of war on his belt and on his sandals.
Psalms 59:2Rescue me from these evil people! Save me from these murderers!
Jeremiah 11:19I was like a trusting little lamb being led away to be slaughtered. I didn't know that they had been plotting against me. They said, “Let's destroy the tree along with everything it produces. Let's kill him so no one will even remember his name.”
Hosea 5:1“Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, members of the royal family!
Hosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram; Israel worked there to gain a wife, earning a wife by looking after sheep.
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 →