Hosea 6:8 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

KJV

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ASV

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

WEB

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.

YLT

Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

DBT

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.

About this book

Old Testament

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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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.
Acts 25:3
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
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.
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 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

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Note, Those who are disposed to turn to God themselves should do all they can to excite, and engage, and encourage others to return to him. What it is they engage to do: " Come, and let us return to the Lord,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Particularly it is polluted with blood, as if that were a sin which the wicked Levites were in a special manner guilty of. In popish countries the clergy are observed to be the most bloody persecutors. Or, as it was a city of refuge, by abusing the power it had to judge of murders it became polluted with blood.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Gilead . . . city--probably Ramoth-gilead, metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, south of the Jabbok, known as "Gilead" (1Ki 4:13; compare Ge 31:21-25). work iniquity-- (Ho 12:11). polluted with blood--"marked with blood-traces" [MAURER].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

A city - A city full of notorious transgressors, the inhabitants though Levites and priests, work all manner of wickedness. With blood - Murders committed there.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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