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Hosea 6:8

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

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

Hosea 6:8 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Hosea 6:8

Theological / Devotional

Gilead is a city. An unidentified city in Gilead, the land east of the Jordan between the Yannuk and Jabbok rivers (see on Gen. 31:47). The Gileadites are pictured here as murderous in nature (see 2 Kings 15:25), and consequently it is not surprising to find that they were among the first ones of the northern kingdom carried into captivity by Assyria (2 Kings 15:29).

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