Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of them that do iniquity; She is full of footsteps of blood.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 59:2Deliver me from the doers of iniquity, And save me from men of blood!
Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a tame lamb, that is led to the slaughter, And knew not that they had formed plots against me, [[saying,]] “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, Let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name may no more be remembered!”
Hosea 5:1Hear ye this, O ye priests, And hearken, O house of Israel, And give ear, O house of the king! For judgment is coming upon you, Because ye have been a snare at Mizpah, And an outspread net upon Tabor.
Hosea 12:12Jacob fled into the country of Syria, And Israel served for a wife, And for a wife he kept 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 →