Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 6:8
A city — A city full of notorious transgressors, the inhabitants though Levites and priests, work all manner of wickedness. With blood — Murders committed there.
A city — A city full of notorious transgressors, the inhabitants though Levites and priests, work all manner of wickedness. With blood — Murders committed there.
Verse Hosea 6:8. _GILEAD_ IS _A CITY OF THEM THAT WORK INIQUITY_] In this place Jacob and Laban made their covenant, and set up a _heap of_ _stones_, which was called _Galeed_, the _heap of testimony_...
GILEAD IS A CITY OF THEM THAT WORK INIQUITY - If we regard “Gilead,” (as it elsewhere is,) as the country beyond Jordan, where the two tribes and a half dwelt, this will mean that the whole land was b...
CHAPTER 6:4-11 Divine Mourning over Ephraim and Judah _ 1. What shall I do to thee? (Hosea 6:4) _ 2. Their transgression (Hosea 6:7) Hosea 6:4. The Lord grieves and mourns over the condition of the...
HOSEA 6:4 TO HOSEA 7:2. ISRAEL'S MORAL CONDITION HOPELESSLY CORRUPT. The shallow expressions of loyalty by the fickle people mean nothing, and cannot avert Yahweh's inevitable judgment. He looks for r...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven =_ vanity (App-44.) Referring here, to the sin of idolatry. Compare "Beth-aven", Hosea 4:15. POLLUTED WITH. tracked with heel-marks of....
Two spots of specially ill fame are singled out Gilead and the road to Shechem....
_Gilead_ Here alone, and probably in Judges 10:17, mentioned as the name of a town. We still find the name of Gilead (in its Arabic form _Jil-âd_) lingering at various parts of the ancient Gilead, but...
_REMEMBERING GOD'S COVENANT HOSEA 6:6-8:_ Gomer had broken the covenant that she had made with Hosea. She had become an unfaithful wife treacherous companion. Israel had likewise broken her covenant w...
AND IS POLLUTED WITH BLOOD— "It is now no longer what it ought to be, a city of refuge, but the city of bloodshed and slaughter....
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDEHER INCONSTANCY TEXT: Hosea 6:1-11 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days wil...
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 "Gil...
6:8 blood. (c-14) Or 'full of bloodmarks.'...
THE SHALLOWNESS OF ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE Hosea now represents the people as counselling one another to repentance in presence of the impending danger; and goes on to point out the futility of a hurried...
GILEAD] cp. Hosea 12:11. Probably Ramoth-Gilead. Being a city of refuge it was doubtless the place of an early sanctuary. But holy cities were now become notorious for their wickedness....
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 6 THE PEOPLE ARE NOT TRUE TO GOD V1 ‘Come, let us return to the *Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will bring us health....
POLLUTED... — More accurately, _betrodden_ (or foot-tracked) _with blood._ We infer from Judges 10:17 that there was a town called Gilead east of the Jordan distinct altogether from Mizpah (identified...
גִּלְעָ֕ד קִרְיַ֖ת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן עֲקֻבָּ֖ה מִ...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
“LET US RETURN UNTO THE LORD” Hosea 6:1-11 How full Scripture is of tender invitations: _Come, and let us return!_ This opening verse is closely connected with Hosea 5:15. The hand that smote was th...
Here we have the prophet's appeal in consequence of the judgment threatened. It was first a message calling the people to return to Jehovah. It was based on the certainty of divine pity; and a promise...
(h) Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood. (h) Which was the place where the priests dwelt, and which should have been best instructed in my word....
Supplanted with blood. That is, undermined and brought to ruin for shedding of blood; and, as it is signified in the following verse, for conspiring with the priests, (of Bethel) like robbers, to murd...
We find here the same melancholy account, as in the other parts of this prophecy; the Lord complaining of his people's apostacy; Gilead and the house of Israel; Ephraim and Judah; all alike transgress...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
VII. HOSEA 6:1-2 (NASB) "COME, LET US RETURN TO THE LORD. FOR HE HAS TORN [US,] BUT HE WILL HEAL US; HE HAS WOUNDED [US,] BUT HE WILL BANDAGE US. 2 "HE WILL REVIVE US AFTER TWO DAYS; HE WILL RAISE U...
I shall first speak of the subject, and then something shall be added in its place of the words. The Prophet here notices, no doubt, something special against Gilead, which through the imperfection of...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
GILEAD [IS] A CITY OF THEM THAT WORK INIQUITY,.... The chief city in the land of Gilead, which lay beyond Jordan, inhabited by Gad and Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh; and so belonged to the te...
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood. Ver. 8. _Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity_] Another πονηροπολις; such a city there was in Greece, and so called...
Hosea 6:8. _Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity_, &c. Archbishop Newcome translates these two verses very literally thus: _Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity: she is marked with foots...
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, the entire province being a gathering-place of wicked people, AND IS POLLUTED WITH BLOOD, so that the entire district east of Jordan was guilty in the sigh...
AN EARNEST INVITATION AND A FURTHER ADMONITION. Having stated his threat in a most uncompromising form, the prophet adds a powerful appeal to the people of his nation to heed the warning of the Lord...
POLLUTED WITH BLOOD: Or, cunning for blood...
4-11 Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore...
GILEAD; one of the six cities of refuge, situate in the country of that name, on a high hill, whence it is called Ramoth-gilead: now as a city of refuge it was a city pertaining to the priests and Lev...
Hosea 6:8 Gilead H1568 city H7151 evildoers H6466 (H8802) H205 defiled H6121 blood H1818 Gilead -...
‘But they like Adam (or ‘men') have transgressed the covenant. There have they dealt treacherously against me. Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, It is stained with blood. Three views are...
CONTENTS: The voice of the remnant of Israel in the last days. Jehovah's response. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The consideration of God's judgments upon us because of sin should awaken us to return...
Hosea 6:2. _After two days will he revive us._ The Chaldaic paraphrase gives a double acceptation to this text, that the Messiah should raise the dead, and that he should also revive and heal the chur...
_Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood._ DIVINE INSTITUTIONS CORRUPTED It is supposed that Gilead here means Ramoth Gilead: the metropolis of the mountainous region...
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 6:8. GILEAD] A city of refuge, the residence of priests, and the centre or metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, yet polluted and the leader of ruin! HOSEA 6:9.] Even p...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 6:1 These three verses have, by the division into chapters, been violently and improperly torn from the preceding chapter, to which they naturally belong. Their connection with the f...
And they will say, Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up (Hsa Hosea 6:1). This is the prayer that they will be offerin...
1 Kings 2:5; 2 Samuel 20:8; 2 Samuel 3:27; Acts 23:12; Acts 25:3;...