Hosea 6:7
And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, || There they dealt treacherously against Me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
In Context
6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, || And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
8Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, || Slippery from blood.
Cross References
Genesis 3:11And He says, “Who has declared to you that you [are] naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I have commanded you not to eat?”
2 Kings 17:15and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are around them, of whom YHWH commanded them not to do like them.
Isaiah 24:5And the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, || Because they have transgressed laws, || They have changed a statute, || They have made void a perpetual covenant.
Isaiah 48:8Indeed, you have not heard, || Indeed, you have not known, || Indeed, your ear has not opened from that time, || For I have known you deal treacherously, || And [are] a transgressor from the belly, || One is crying to you.
Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel has dealt treacherously against Me, || And the house of Judah,” || A declaration of YHWH.
Jeremiah 31:32Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, || In the day of My laying hold on their hand, || To bring them out of the land of Egypt, || In that they made My covenant void, || And I ruled over them,” || A declaration of YHWH.
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 →