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The Unrepentance of Israel and Judah

Hosea 6:8

In 11 translations

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.polluted: or, cunning for
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.
LSV
Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, || Slippery from blood.
YLT
Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
DBY
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.
DRC
Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
GNV
Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.
JPS
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.
LXXE
there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

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Original-language editions

WLC
גִּלְעָ֕ד קִרְיַ֖ת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן עֲקֻבָּ֖ה מִדָּֽם׃
LXX-Br
ἐργαζομένη μάταια, ταράσσουσα ὕδωρ,

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📍 Gilead◆ Prophecies of Hosea

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Hosea 12:11Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
  • Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
  • Micah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
  • Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered…
  • Joshua 21:38And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,
  • 1 Kings 2:5Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He…
  • Acts 25:3to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
  • 2 Samuel 20:8And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
  • Acts 23:12–15When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. More than forty of them were involved in this plot. They went to the chief priests and…
  • Matthew 26:15–16and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver. So from then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
  • Hosea 5:1“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
  • Isaiah 59:6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
  • 2 Samuel 3:27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
  • Psalms 59:2Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.
  • Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

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