ホセア書 6:7-8 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:7-11

The broken covenant. Israel had broken covenant with God. In the rupture of this bond was ruptured also the bond which bound society together. Fearful wickedness was the result. I. THE BOND BROKEN WITH GOD . ( Hosea 6:7 ) 1. The primal sin . "They, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant." Our first parents were placed under arrangements involving in them the essentials of a covenant. Through breach of this covenant came "death into our world, and all our woe." ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:8

Divine institutions corrupted. "Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood." It is supposed that Gilead here means Ramoth-gilead, the metropolis of the mountainous region beyond Jordan and south of the fiver Jabbok, known by the name of Gilead ( Joshua 21:28 ; 1 Kings 6:18 ). It was here that Jacob and Laban entered into a sacred covenant with each other. It was once a very sacred place; it was one of the celebrated cities of refuge ( Deuteronomy 20:1-20 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 6:8-9

In these two verses the prophet adduces proof of that faithlessness with which he had just charged Israel. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. The latter clause is more literally rendered, foot-printed or foot-tracked from blood . Two things require consideration here—the place and its pollution. Gilead is sometimes a mountain range, and sometimes the mountainous region east of the Jordan; it has Bashan on the north, the Arabian plateau on the east,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:7

But they like men - Or (better as in the E. M) “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent, in Paradise, not out of any pressure, but wantonly, through self-will and pride, broke the covenant of God, eating the forbidden fruit, and then defended himself in his sin against God, casting the blame upon the woman: so these, in the good land which God had given them, “that they should” therein “keep His covenant and observe His laws” Psalms 105:44, wantonly and petulantly... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 6:8

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 was banded in one, as one city of evil-doers. It had an unity, but of evil. As the whole world has been pictured as divided between “the city of God” and the city of the devil, consisting respectively of the children of God and the children of the devil; so the whole of Gilead may be represented as one... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 6:7

Hosea 6:7. But they like men have transgressed the covenant That is, as all corrupt men are prone to do; and as other men, who are not under such strong obligations to keep covenant with me, use to do. In the Hebrew it is, like Adam: and it would have been better, it seems, to have rendered it so; the sense appearing to be, that their transgression of the covenant God had made with them, or of the commandments which he had given them, was very similar to the transgression of Adam in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 6:8-9

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 with footsteps of blood. And as bands wait for a man, a company of priests murder in the way to Shechem. “If Gilead be put here for Ramoth-gilead, (and I know not,” says Bishop Horsley, “what other city can be meant,) it was a city of refuge, Deuteronomy 4:43; and such also was Shechem, or Sichem,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 6:7-11

Treachery, robbery and murder (6:7-7:7)Priests and common citizens alike are guilty of treachery, robbery and murder. Hosea again names the places where they have practised these evils. He announces that the people, along with all their religious ceremonies and sacrifices, are repulsive to God (7-10). God wants to give blessings to his people, but they prevent such blessings because they refuse to repent. They prefer to continue with their cheating, stealing and violence (11-7:2).The death of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 6:7

like men. Hebrew like Adam. men. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14 . Compare Job 31:33 .Psalms 49:12 ; Psalms 82:7 . transgressed = rebelled. Heb 'abar . App-44 . the covenant. See Joshua 24:1 , Joshua 24:25 . read more