Hosea 6:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

Cross References

Hosea 12:11

I spoke to the prophets, I granted many visions, and through the prophets I told parables.

Acts 25:3

as a favor to have him sent to Jerusalem, for they were plotting to kill him along the way.

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, priests, Pay attention, house of Israel, Household of the king, give ear! For you are responsible for judgment. But you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread upon Tabor,

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, murder, stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Jeremiah 11:19

Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs cannot serve as clothing, nor can they cover themselves with their works. Their works are evil works, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

Psalm 59:2

Rescue me from my enemies, my God; lift me out of reach of my foes.

Psalm 10:8

They wait in ambush near towns; their eyes watch for the helpless to murder the innocent in secret.

1 Kings 2:5

“You yourself know what Joab, son of Zeruiah, did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner, son of Ner, and Amasa, son of Jether: he killed them and brought the blood of war into a time of peace, and put the blood of war on the belt about his waist and the sandal on his foot.

2 Samuel 20:8

They were at the great stone in Gibeon when Amasa met them. Now Joab had a belt over his tunic, from which was slung a sword in its sheath at his thigh; the sword would slide out downwards.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside within the city gate to speak with him privately. There he stabbed him in the abdomen, and he died for the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

Joshua 21:38

From the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for homicides at Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

Psalm 141:4

Do not let my heart incline to evil, to perform deeds in wickedness. On the delicacies of evildoers let me not feast.

Hosea 12:12

In Gilead is falsehood, they have come to nothing; in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, But their altars are like heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.