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Hosea 6:8 KJV
Hosea · chapter 6 · verse 8
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.Hosea 6:8 · King James Version
Hosea 6:8 in context
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- iniquityʼâvenstrictly nothingnessH205 →
- pollutedʻâqôbfraudulent or trackedH6121 →
- GileadGilʻâdGilad, a region East of the JordanH1568 →
- cityqiryâhbuildingH7151 →
- workpâʻalto do or make , especially to practiseH6466 →
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Two things, two evil things, both Judah and Ephraim are here charged with, and justly accused of: - I. That they were not firm to their own convictions, but were unsteady, unstable as water, Hos 6:4, Hos 6:5. O Ephraim! what shall I do unto thee? O Judah! what shall I do unto thee? This is a strange expression.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-11