“Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.”
Hosea 6:8 (KJV) |
Hosea 6:8
From Hosea 6, in the Book of Hosea (Old Testament).
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6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.