Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of evildoers 1 with footprints of blood. 1

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In The King James Version

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

In Context

7Like Adam they have broken the covenant; 1 they were unfaithful to me. 1

9As gangs of robbers wait for someone, 1 so the priests band together to commit murder on the way to Shechem; 1 they have committed shameful crimes. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 3:27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly. There Joab stabbed him in the stomach and killed him. In this way, Joab avenged the blood of Asahel his brother.

1 Kings 2:5You know also what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son of Jether, whom he killed. He shed the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the shoes on his feet.

Psalms 59:2Keep me safe from the workers of iniquity, 1 and save me from the bloodthirsty men. 1

Jeremiah 11:19I was like a gentle lamb being led to a butcher. I did not know that they had formed plans against me, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit! Let us cut him off from the land of the living so his name will be no longer remembered.” 1

Hosea 5:1“Hear this, priests! 1 Pay attention, house of Israel! 1 Listen, house of the king! 1 For judgment is coming against you all. 1 You have been a snare at Mizpah 1 and a net spread over Tabor. 1

Hosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram; 1 Israel worked in order to get a wife; 1 and he kept flocks of sheep to get a wife. 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 →

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