Hosea 6:8

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 we cannot venture on a combination with the prophet's Gilead. Ramoth-Gilead would seem, from its importance, a not unlikely place to be meant.

polluted with blood Rather, tracked with bloody foot-prints; comp. the striking expression used of Joab in 1 Kings 2:5. The Gileadites, half-civilized mountaineers, seem to have been distinguished for their ferocity (comp. 2 Kings 15:25). From the next verse we may perhaps infer that at Gilead too the priests were foremost in lawlessness.