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Hosea 6:8
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Gilead is a city of evildoers,tracked with bloody footprints.
Gil`ad is a city of those who work iniquity; It is stained with blood.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints.
Gilead is a city of people who do evil; their footprints are bloody.
Gilead is a city of wrongdoers; It is tracked with bloody footprints.
Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.
Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints.
Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity,With a track of blood.
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
Everyone in Gilead is evil; your hands are stained with the blood of victims.
Gil‘ad is a city of criminals, covered with bloody footprints;
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.
Gilead is a city of people who do evil— people who have tricked and killed others.
Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and wallows in blood. Your strength is as that of a robber.
Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers.
Gilead is a city of evil, a cunning city because of blood.
Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, slippery with blood marks.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
Gilead is a city of them that worke iniquitie; and is polluted with blood.
Gilead is a citie of wicked doers, and [is] polluted with blood.
But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is stained with blood.
Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; It is stained with blood.
Galaad the citee of hem that worchen idol, is supplauntid with blood; and
Gilead is a city of those that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!
Gilead is a city of evildoers And defiled with blood.
"Gilead is a city of sinners, tracked with footprints of blood.
Gilead is a city of wrong-doers, with blood in every footstep.
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
Gilead, is a city of workers of iniquity, - tracked with blood.
Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
Galaad is a cite of wicked doers, of malicious people and bloudshedders.
"Gilead has become Crime City— blood on the sidewalks, blood on the streets. It used to be robbers who mugged pedestrians. Now it's gangs of priests Assaulting worshipers on their way to Shechem. Nothing is sacred to them.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Gilead: Hosea 12:11, Joshua 21:38
polluted with blood: or, cunning for blood, Hosea 5:1, 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 20:8, 1 Kings 2:5, Psalms 10:8, Psalms 59:2, Isaiah 59:6, Jeremiah 11:19, Micah 7:2, Matthew 26:15, Matthew 26:16, Acts 23:12-15, Acts 25:3
Reciprocal: Hosea 7:1 - the iniquity
Cross-References
And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that is in the earth shall perish.
behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die.
For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand;
The LORD preserveth all them that love Him; but all the wicked will He destroy.
So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man.
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD; but a man of wicked devices will He condemn.
'From afar the LORD appeared unto me.' 'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with affection have I drawn thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity,.... The chief city in the land of Gilead, which lay beyond Jordan, inhabited by Gad and Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh; and so belonged to the ten tribes, whose sins are here particularly observed. It had its name from the country, or the country from that, or both from the mountain of the same name. It is thought to be Ramothgilead, a city of refuge, and put for all the cities of refuge in those parts, which were inhabited by priests and Levites; and who ought to have had knowledge of the laws, and instructed the people in them, and observed them themselves, and set a good example to others; but, instead of this, the whole course of their lives, was vicious; they made a trade of sinning, did nothing else but work iniquity; and this was general among them, the city or cities of them consisted of none else; and all manner of iniquity was committed by them, particularly idolatry; for so the words may be rendered, "a city of them that serve an idol" a; not only at Dan and Bethel, but in the cities of the priests, idols were set up and worshipped; this shows the state to be very corrupt:
[and is] polluted with blood; with the blood of murderers harboured there, who ought not to have been admitted; or with the blood of such who were delivered up to the avenger of blood, that ought to have been sheltered, and both for the sake of money; or with the blood of children, sacrificed to Moloch: the word used has the signification of supplanting, lying in wait, and so is understood of a private, secret, shedding of blood, in a deceitful and insidious way: hence some render it, "cunning for blood" b; to which the Targum seems to agree, calling it a city
"of them that secretly or deceitfully shed innocent blood.''
It has also the signification of the heel of a man's foot, and is by some rendered, "trodden by blood" c; that is, by bloody men: or "footed" or "heeled by blood" d; that is, such an abundance of it was shed, that a man could not set his foot or his heel any where but in blood.
a קרית פעלי און "civitas operantium idolum", V. L. b עקבה מדם "callida et astuta sanguine", so some in Vatablus; "callida sanguine", Castslio. c "Calcata a sanguine", Piscator. d "Vestigiata a sanguine", Capellus, Tarnovius; "vestigis sanguinolentis", Juuius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity - If we regard “Gilead,” (as it elsewhere is,) as the country beyond Jordan, where the two tribes and a half dwelt, this will mean that the whole land was banded in one, as one city of evil-doers. It had an unity, but of evil. As the whole world has been pictured as divided between “the city of God” and the city of the devil, consisting respectively of the children of God and the children of the devil; so the whole of Gilead may be represented as one city, whose inhabitants had one occupation in common, to work evil. Some think that there was a city so called, although not mentioned elsewhere in Holy Scripture, near that Mount Gilead, dear to the memory of Israel, because God there protected their forefather Jacob. Some think that it was Ramoth in Gilead , which God appointed as “a city of refuge,” and which, consequently, became a city of Levites and priests Joshua 21:38.
Here, where God had preserved the life of their forefather, and, in him, had preserved them; here, where He had commanded the innocent shedder of blood to be saved; here, where he had appointed those to dwell, whom He had hallowed to Himself, all was turned to the exact contrary. It, which God had hallowed, was become “a city of workers of iniquity,” i. e., of people, whose habits and custom was to work iniquity. It, where God had appointed life to be preserved, was “polluted” or “tracked with blood.” Everywhere it was marked and stained with the bloody footsteps of those, who (as David said) “put” innocent “blood in their shoes which were on their feet” 1 Kings 2:5, staining their shoes with blood which they shed, so that, wherever they went, they left marks and signs of it.” “Tracked with blood” it was, through the sins of its inhabitants; “tracked with blood” it was again, when it first was taken captive 2 Kings 15:29, and “it, which had swum with the innocent blood of others, swam with the guilty blood of its own people.” It is a special sin, and especially avenged of God, when what God had hallowed, is made the scene of sin.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 6:8. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity — In this place Jacob and Laban made their covenant, and set up a heap of stones, which was called Galeed, the heap of testimony; and most probably idolatry was set up here. Perhaps the very heap became the object of superstitious adoration.
