Hosea 6:7

But they are like Adam, they have transgressed the brit (covenant); 1 there have they dealt treacherously against Me. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

In Context

6For I desired chesed, and not zevach; 1 and the da'as Elohim more than olot (burnt offerings). + 6:6 Mt 9:13 1

8Gil'ad is a city of evil-doers, 1 is trodden with dahm. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:11And He said, Who told thee that thou wast eirom (naked)? Hast thou eaten of HaEtz, which I commanded thee that thou not eat thereof?

2 Kings 17:15And they rejected His chukkot, and His brit (covenant) that He made with their avot, and His edot (testimonies, warnings) which He testified against them; and they followed after hevel, and became hevel, and went after the Goyim that were all around them, concerning whom Hashem had charged them, that they should not do like them.

Isaiah 24:5Ha'aretz also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; 1 because they have transgressed torot, 1 changed chok (ordinance), 1 broken the Brit Olam. 1

Isaiah 48:8Thou heardest not; thou had no da'as; 1 from of old, thine ozen (ear) was not opened; 1 for I knew that thou wouldest deal as a boged (treacherous betrayer), 1 and thou wast called a poshei'a (rebel, transgressor) from the beten + 48:8 i.e., birth; see Ps 51:5 (womb). 1

Jeremiah 5:11For Bais Yisroel and Bais Yehudah 1 have dealt very treacherously against Me, saith Hashem. 1

Jeremiah 31:32But this shall be the Brit that I will cut with Bais Yisroel; + 31:32 T.N. Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha (OJBC) is Jewish, according to Jeremiah After those days, saith Hashem, I will set My Torah in them inwardly, and I will write ketuvim on their hearts; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My People.

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 →

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