Hosea 6:8
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 have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, 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? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Read in contextMicah 7:2
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Read in contextHosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Read in contextPsalms 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Read in contextJeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Read in context2 Samuel 20:8
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
Read in contextMatthew 26:15–16
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
Read in context2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
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