Hosea 6:8
Gil'ad is a city of evil-doers, 1 is trodden with dahm. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:27And when Avner was returned to Chevron, Yoav took him aside in the sha'ar to speak with him privately, and struck him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the dahm of Asahel his brother.
1 Kings 2:5Moreover thou knowest also what Yoav Ben Tzeruyah did to me, and what he did to the two sarim of the Tzivos Yisroel (Armies of Yisroel), unto Avner Ben Ner, and unto Amasa Ben Yeter, whom he killed, and the shefach dahm of war in shalom (peacetime), and put the dahm of milchamah (war) upon his khagorah (sword belt) that was about his loins, and on his na'alayim (sandals) that were on his raglayim.
Psalms 59:2Save me from mine enemies, O Elohai; 1 protect me from them that rise up against me. 1
Jeremiah 11:19But I was like an innocent keves (lamb) 1 that is brought to the slaughter; 1 and I knew not that 1 they had devised machashavot (plots) against me, 1 saying: Let us destroy the etz (tree) with the fruit thereof, 1 and let us cut him off from Eretz Chayyim, 1 that shmo may be no more remembered. 1
Hosea 5:1Hear ye this, O kohanim; 1 and pay heed, ye Bais Yisroel; 1 and give ye ear, O Bais HaMelech; 1 for hamishpat (the judgment) is against you, 1 because ye have been a pach (snare, bird trap) at Mitzpah, 1 and a reshet (net) spread upon Tavor. 1
Hosea 12:12Is there aven (iniquity) in Gil'ad? 1 Surely they are vanity; 1 they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; 1 yea, their mizbechot are as piles of stones 1 in the furrows of the fields. 1
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 →