Hosea 6:8

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Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

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  • Hos 12:11 : 11 I spoke through the prophets and gave many visions; through the prophets, I used parables.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly have perished from the land, and there is no upright person among humanity. All of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with nets.
  • Matt 26:15-16 : 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him over to you?" So they counted out thirty pieces of silver for him. 16 And from that moment, he sought an opportunity to betray Him.
  • Acts 23:12-15 : 12 When daylight came, some of the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty who had taken this oath together. 14 They went to the chief priests and elders and said, 'We have bound ourselves under a solemn curse not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.' 15 Now then, you and the council should notify the commander to bring Paul down to you, as though you are going to investigate his case more thoroughly. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 They asked him as a favor to transfer Paul to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.
  • Josh 21:38 : 38 From the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one who had killed someone) with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside inside the gate, as if to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly, killing him in revenge for the blood of his brother Asahel.
  • 2 Sam 20:8 : 8 When they were at the large stone in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was wearing his military tunic, and strapped over it, at his waist, was a belt with a dagger in its sheath. As he stepped forward, it fell out.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5 : 5 Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—how he killed the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He shed their blood as if in war during a time of peace, staining his belt and sandals with the blood.
  • Ps 10:8 : 8 He sits in ambush in the villages; in the hiding places he murders the innocent; his eyes stealthily watch for the helpless.
  • Ps 59:2 : 2 Deliver me from my enemies, my God; protect me from those who rise against me.
  • Isa 59:6 : 6 Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter. I did not realize they had plotted against me, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will never be remembered again.’
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 Hear this, O priests; pay attention, O house of Israel; listen, O royal house! For judgment is meant for you, because you have become a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.

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    9As marauders lie in wait for someone, so a band of priests murder on the road to Shechem; they commit heinous crimes.

    10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There Ephraim acts like a prostitute; Israel is defiled.

  • Mic 3:10
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    10You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • Hos 12:11
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  • Hos 6:7
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    7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they dealt treacherously with Me.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Hab 2:12
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    12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town with injustice!

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    21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness once dwelt in her, but now murderers.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

    14They wandered blindly through the streets, defiled by blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

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    9The men in you who slander for the purpose of shedding blood eat at the high places; they commit lewdness in your midst.

    10In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

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    23Prepare chains, for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

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    10Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

    11Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.

  • Mic 6:11-12
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    11Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?

    12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

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    9From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there they have remained. Will not war overtake them in Gibeah because of their wickedness?

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.

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    16For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood.

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    9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

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    15Their feet are swift to shed blood.

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    2Do you rulers truly speak justice? Do you judge people with fairness?

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    1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, packed with plunder, never without prey.

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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice.

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    6You have multiplied your slain in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

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    10Cursed is the one who does the LORD's work negligently, and cursed is the one who withholds their sword from blood.

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    2The godly have perished from the land, and there is no upright person among humanity. All of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with nets.

    3Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

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    9He said to me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of injustice. They say, "The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see."'

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    4Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and have done violence to the law.

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    6See, the princes of Israel, each one by his own might, have been in you to shed blood.

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    8They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

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    38They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

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    6Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot whose corrosion is in it and whose rust will not come off! Take its pieces out one by one; no lot will be cast for them.

    7For the blood she has shed is inside her; she placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

    8To stir up wrath and bring vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so it would not be covered.

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    6The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all evildoers.

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    4For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

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    10whose hands are full of wicked schemes, and whose right hand is filled with bribes.

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    3Then say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that sheds blood in her midst to bring her time closer, and makes idols to defile herself,

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    18I will first repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.

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    12In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.