Hosea 6:8

Good News Translation

Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:8

When they reached the large rock at Gibeon, Amasa met them. Joab was dressed for battle, with a sword in its sheath fastened to his belt. As he came forward, the sword fell out.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner arrived in Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. And so Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

1 Kings 2:5

“There is something else. You remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace as revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men, and now I bear the responsibility for what he did, and I suffer the consequences.

Psalm 10:8

They hide themselves in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They spy on their helpless victims;

Psalm 141:4

Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.

Psalm 59:2

Save me from those evil people; rescue me from those murderers!

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like a trusting lamb taken out to be killed, and I did not know that it was against me that they were planning evil things. They were saying, “Let's chop down the tree while it is still healthy; let's kill him so that no one will remember him any more.”

Hosea 12:11

Yet idols are worshiped in Gilead, and those who worship them will die. Bulls are sacrificed in Gilgal, and the altars there will become piles of stone in the open fields.”

Hosea 12:12

Our ancestor Jacob had to flee to Mesopotamia, where, in order to get a wife, he worked for another man and took care of his sheep.

Hosea 4:2

They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

Hosea 5:1

“Listen to this, you priests! Pay attention, people of Israel! Listen, you that belong to the royal family! You are supposed to judge with justice—so judgment will fall on you! You have become a trap at Mizpah, a net spread on Mount Tabor,

Micah 7:2

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

Acts 25:3

to do them the favor of having Paul come to Jerusalem, for they had made a plot to kill him on the way.

Joshua 21:38

From the tribe of Gad they received four cities: Ramoth in Gilead, with its pasture lands (one of the cities of refuge), Mahanaim,