Hosea 6:8 “Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.”

Hosea 6:8

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

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Cross references

“Gilead”

Hosea 12:11 Joshua 21:38

Hosea 12:11 · BSB

Is 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.

Joshua 21:38 · BSB

And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,

“polluted with blood”

Micah 7:2 Hosea 5:1 2 Samuel 3:27 2 Samuel 20:8 1 Kings 2:5 Psalm 10:8

Micah 7:2 · BSB

The 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.

Hosea 5:1 · BSB

“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.

2 Samuel 3:27 · BSB

When 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.

2 Samuel 20:8 · BSB

And 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.

1 Kings 2:5 · BSB

Moreover, 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 staine…

Psalm 10:8 · BSB

He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

Also

Hosea 4:2

Hosea 4:2 · BSB

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

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