Hosea 6:7
For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
In Context
8But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:
Cross References
Genesis 3:11And God said to him, Who told you that you were naked, unless you have eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it alone not to eat?
2 Kings 17:15And they kept not any of his testimonies which he charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly.
Isaiah 24:5And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 48:8You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears: for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.
Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, says the Lord: the house of Juda also
Jeremiah 31:32O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: your branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon your fruits, and upon your grape gatherers.
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 →