Hosea 12:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Is there iniquity. [Surely Gilead is] iniquity: supplying the Ellipsis (App-6) from the next clause.

iniquity. Hebrew. 'avert. App-44. Not the same word as Hosea 12:8.

Gilead... Gilgal... heaps. Heap of testimony... heap of heaps... heaps. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew. Gil'ad... Gilgal.. gallim.

Hosea 12:11

11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.