Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with bloody footprints,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
In Context
7But they, after the manner of men, have transgressed the covenant, there they have played me false.
Cross References
Psalms 59:2Save me from those who do wrong, save me from the bloodthirsty.
Hosea 5:1Hear this, priests! Attend, Israelites! Listen, royal family! For you is the judgment: a snare you have become at Mizpeh, and a net spread out on Tabor,
Hosea 12:12And Jacob fled to the territory of Aram, and Israel worked to earn a wife: for a wife he herded 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 →