“ Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is pollutedc with blood. ”
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity - If we regard “Gilead,” (as it elsewhere is,) as the country beyond Jordan, where the two tribes and a half dwelt, this will mean that the whole land...
(h) Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood. (h) Which was the place where the priests dwelt, and which should have been best instructed in my word.
Hosea 6:4 to Hosea 7:2 . Israel's Moral Condition Hopelessly Corrupt. The shallow expressions of loyalty by the fickle people mean nothing, and cannot avert Yahweh's inevitable judgment. He look...
iniquity. Hebrew. 'aven = vanity (App-44.) Referring here, to the sin of idolatry. Compare "Beth-aven", Hosea 4:15 . polluted with . tracked with heel-marks of.
I shall first speak of the subject, and then something shall be added in its place of the words. The Prophet here notices, no doubt, something special against Gilead, which through the imperfec...
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity - In this place Jacob and Laban made their covenant, and set up a heap of ston...
And is polluted with blood— "It is now no longer what it ought to be, a city of refuge, but the city of bloodshed and slaughter."
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. Gilead is a city - probably Ramoth-gilead, metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, south of the Jabbok, known as...
The Shallowness of Israel's Repentance Hosea now represents the people as counselling one another to repentance in presence of the impending danger; and goes on to point out the futility of a hurr...
Polluted ... — More accurately, betrodden (or foot-tracked) with blood. We infer from Judges 10:17 that there was a town called Gilead east of the Jordan distinct altogether from Mizpah (ident...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1-19 ; Hosea 5:1-15 ; Hosea 6:1-11 ; Hosea 7:1-16 ; Hosea 8:1-14 ; Hosea 9:1-17 ; Hosea 10:1-15 ; Hosea 11:1-12 ; Hosea 12:1-14 ; Hosea 13:1-16 ; Hosea...
“Let Us Return unto the Lord” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: Come, and let us return! This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15 . The hand that smote...
Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promis...
We find here the same melancholy account, as in the other parts of this prophecy; the Lord complaining of his people's apostacy; Gilead and the house of Israel; Ephraim and Judah; all alike transgres...
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity ,.... The chief city in the land of Gilead, which lay beyond Jordan, inhabited by Gad and Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh; and so belonged to the...
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood. Ver. 8. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity ] Another πονηροπολις; such a city there was in Greece, and so call...
Hosea 6:8-9 . Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity , &c. Archbishop Newcome translates these two verses very literally thus: Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity: she is marked w...
Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. B. C. 758. 4 O Ephraim, what sh...
Gilead; one of the six cities of refuge, situate in the country of that name, on a high hill, whence it is called Ramoth-gilead: now as a city of refuge it was a city pertaining to the priests and...
‘But they like Adam (or ‘men') have transgressed the covenant. There have they dealt treacherously against me. Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, It is stained with blood. Three views a...
CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 6:8 . Gilead] A city of refuge, the residence of priests, and the centre or metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, yet polluted and the leader of ruin! Hosea 6...
Hosea 6:2 . After two days will he revive us. The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the c...
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. Divine institutions corrupted It is supposed that Gilead here means Ramoth Gilead: the metropolis of the mountainous reg...
EXPOSITION Hosea 6:1-28 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connecti...
An Earnest Invitation and a Further Admonition. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lo...
1 Kings 2:5 ; 2 Samuel 20:8 ; 2 Samuel 3:27 ; Acts 23:12-15 ; Acts 25:3 ; Hosea 12:11 ; Hosea 5:1 ; Isaiah 59:6 ; Jeremiah 11:19 ; Joshua 21:38 ; Micah 7:2 ; Matthew 26:15 ; Matthew 26:1...
A city — A city full of notorious transgressors, the inhabitants though Levites and priests, work all manner of wickedness. With blood — Murders committed there.