Hosea 6:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

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Hos 12:11 : 11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Matt 26:15-16 : 15 and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought opportunity to deliver him [unto them].
Acts 23:12-15 : 12 And when it was day, {G5100} the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy. 14 And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.
Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.
Josh 21:38 : 38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
2 Sam 20:8 : 8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
1 Kgs 2:5 : 5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
Ps 10:8 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.
Ps 59:2 : 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, And save me from the bloodthirsty men.
Isa 59:6 : 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Hos 4:2 : 2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hos 5:1 : 1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Hos 6:9-10
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9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.
10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Mic 3:10
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10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Hos 12:11
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11Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
Hos 6:7
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7But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Hos 4:2
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2There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hab 2:12
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12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!
Isa 1:21
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21How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Lam 4:13-14
2 verses
73%
13[ It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
14They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot {H3808} touch their garments.
Ezek 22:9-10
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73%
9Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
10In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.
Ezek 7:23
72%
23Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ps 55:10-11
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72%
10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Mic 6:11-12
2 verses
72%
11Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Hos 10:9
71%
9O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah.
Isa 59:7
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7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Prov 1:16
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16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
Hos 9:9
71%
9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Rom 3:15
71%
15Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Ps 58:2
71%
2Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Nah 3:1
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1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.
Isa 59:3
70%
3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
Ezek 11:6
70%
6Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Jer 48:10
70%
10Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Mic 7:2-3
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2The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
3Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.
Jer 6:7
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7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Jer 2:34
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34Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
Ps 94:21
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21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
Ezek 9:9
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9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wresting [of judgment]: for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth not.
Zeph 3:4
70%
4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Prov 6:17
70%
17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
Ezek 22:6
69%
6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
Hos 4:8
69%
8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
Ps 106:38
69%
38And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
Zeph 3:1
69%
1Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
Ezek 24:6-8
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69%
6Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.
7For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
8That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
Ps 5:6
69%
6Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
Jer 22:17
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17But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Joel 3:19
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19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Jer 19:4
69%
4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
Ps 26:10
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10In whose hands is wickedness, And their right hand is full of bribes.
Ezek 22:3
68%
3And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that maketh idols against herself to defile her!
Jer 16:18
68%
18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations.
Ezek 22:12
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12In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.