Hosea 6:8
6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
9 Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
- KJV
- Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
- WEB
- Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
- ASV
- Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
- DARBY
- Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.
- BLB
- Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, with a footprint of blood.
- ÅB
- Gilead er en by med ugjerningsmenn, full av blodspor.
- OTB
- Gilead er en by fylt med ugjerningsmenn,
Merket av blodspor. - B1930
- Gilead er en by med ugjerningsmenn, full av blodspor.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
Read in contextMicah 7:2
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
Read in contextHosea 4:2
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Read in contextPsalms 59:2
Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.
Read in contextJeremiah 11:19
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
Read in context2 Samuel 20:8
And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
Read in contextMatthew 26:15–16
and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.
Read in context2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
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