Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

Gilead is a city - probably Ramoth-gilead, metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, south of the Jabbok, known as "Gilead" (: cf. "Mount Gilead," ).

Of them that work iniquity - ( "Is there iniquity in Gilead?")

And is polluted with blood - `marked with blood-traces' (Maurer). Referring to Gilead's complicity in the regicidal conspiracy of Pekah against Pekahiah (). See the note at . Many homicides were there, for there were beyond Jordan more cities of refuge in proportion to the extent of territory, than on this side of Jordan (; ; ). Ramoth-gilead was one city of refuge in the tribe of Gad, beyond Jordan; Bezer was another in Reuben; and Golan another in Manasseh.