Hosea 6:8

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Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

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  • Hos 12:11 : 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.
  • Matt 26:15-16 : 15 And said to them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they agreed with him for thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
  • Acts 23:12-15 : 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 And there were more than forty who formed this conspiracy. 14 They came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore, you with the council suggest to the chief captain that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more accurately about him; and we, before he comes near, are ready to kill him.
  • Acts 25:3 : 3 requesting a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
  • Josh 21:38 : 38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
  • 2 Sam 20:8 : 8 When they reached the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing his military garment, with a belt and a sword fastened at his waist in its sheath; as he went forward, it fell out.
  • 1 Kgs 2:5 : 5 Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his belt that was about his loins, and in his shoes on his feet.
  • Ps 10:8 : 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor.
  • Ps 59:2 : 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloodthirsty men.
  • Isa 59:6 : 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will 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 or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 Listen to this, O priests; and pay attention, O house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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    9 And as bands of robbers wait for someone, so the company of priests murder on the way by agreement: for they commit lewdness.

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    10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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    11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

  • Hos 6:7
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    7 But like men they have transgressed the covenant: there they have dealt treacherously against me.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Hab 2:12
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    12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

  • Isa 1:21
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    21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

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  • Ezek 22:9-10
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    9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

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    23 Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    11 Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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    9 O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

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    7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • Hos 9:9
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    9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

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    2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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    1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey does not depart;

  • Isa 59:3
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    3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

  • Ezek 11:6
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    6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

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    10 Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.

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    7 As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.

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    9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.

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    4 Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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    17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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    6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood.

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    8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

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    38 And shed innocent blood, even 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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    1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

  • Ezek 24:6-8
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    6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

    7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust;

    8 That it might cause fury to come up and take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

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    6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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    17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

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    19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

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    4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

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    10 in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

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    3 Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

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    18 And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled my land; they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

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    12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.