Hosea 6:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.”
What this verse means
A short, plain-language explanation of Hosea 6:8 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
Compare translations
BSBPD
“Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Gilead <FI>is<Fi> a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Hosea 6:8 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 21:38And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
- Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- Psalms 59:2Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.
- 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.
- 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 no more.”
- Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- 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.
- 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 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.
- 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.
- Matthew 26:15and 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.
- Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
- 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Keep exploring