Hosea 6:7

But, they, like Adam, have transgressed a covenant,—There, have they dealt treacherously with me.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6For, lovingkindness, I desired, and not sacrifice,—and the knowledge of God, more than ascending-offerings.

8Gilead, is a city of workers of iniquity,—tracked with blood.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:11And he said, Who told thee that, naked, thou wast? Of the tree whereof I commanded thee not to eat, hast thou eaten?

2 Kings 17:15but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them,—and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them.

Isaiah 24:5Yea the earth itself is profaned under them who dwell therein,—For they have Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age-abiding covenant.

Isaiah 48:8Nay! thou hadst not heard, Nay! thou hadst not known, Nay! in time past, thine ear, was not opened,—For I knew that thou, wouldst be treacherous, Yea a transgressor from birth, hast thou been called.

Jeremiah 5:11For very treacherously, have the house of Israel and the house of Judah dealt with me, Declareth Yahweh.

Jeremiah 31:32Not like the covenant which I solemnised with their fathers, In the day when I grasped their hand, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt,—In that, they, brake my covenant Though, I, had become a husband unto them, Declareth Yahweh.

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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