Hosea 6:8

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Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

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  • Hos 12:11 : 11 My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:15-16 : 15 What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver. 16 And from that time he was watching for a chance to give him into their hands.
  • Acts 23:12-15 : 12 And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death. 13 And more than forty of them took this oath. 14 And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death 15 So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.
  • Josh 21:38 : 38 And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.
  • 2 Sam 20:8 : 8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came face to face with them. Now Joab had on his war-dress, and round him a band from which his sword was hanging in its cover; and while he was walking, it came out, falling to the earth.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5 : 5 Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.
  • Ps 10:8 : 8 He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
  • Ps 59:2 : 2 Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.
  • Isa 59:6 : 6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

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    9 And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

    10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

  • Mic 3:10
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    10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • Hos 12:11
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    11 My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.

  • Hos 6:7
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    7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Hab 2:12
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    12 A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!

  • Isa 1:21
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    21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

    14 They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • Ezek 22:9-10
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    9 In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.

    10 In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23 Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10 By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

    11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

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    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9 O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

  • Isa 59:7
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    7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Hos 9:9
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    9 They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

  • Ps 58:2
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    2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

  • Nah 3:1
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    1 A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

  • Isa 59:3
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    3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

  • Ezek 11:6
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    6 You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

  • Jer 48:10
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    10 Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.

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    2 The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

    3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

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    7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

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    34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

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    21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

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    9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

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    4 Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

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    17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

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    6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.

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    8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

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    38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

  • Zeph 3:1
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    1 Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

  • Ezek 24:6-8
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    6 For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

    7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

    8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.

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    6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

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    19 Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

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    4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;

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    10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

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    3 And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

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    18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

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    12 In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.