Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
Hosea 6:8 in other translations
| BSB | Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood. |
| DARBY | Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood. |
| BBE | Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood. |
| Webster | Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. |
What does Hosea 6:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 6:4-11
Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore the Lord sent awful messages by the prophets. The word of God will be the death either of the sin or of the sinner. God desired mercy rather than sacrifice, and that knowledge of him which produces holy fear and love. This…
Hosea 6:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Hosea 6:8
- 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.
- Micah 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.
- Hosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
- Psalms 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
- Jeremiah 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.
- 2 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.
- Matthew 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. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
- 2 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.
- Joshua 21:38
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
- Hosea 5:1
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
- Psalms 10:8
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
- 1 Kings 2:5
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
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Context
- Hosea 6:7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
- Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
- Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
Hosea 6:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Galaad, ciudad de obradores de iniquidad, ensuciada de sangre. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Galaad est une ville d’ouvriers d’iniquité, couverte de traces de sang. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gilead ist eine Stadt von Übeltätern voll Blutspuren. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Galaad civitas operantium idolum, supplantata sanguine. |