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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 6:8 - 6:8
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Gilead ... city - probably Ramoth-gilead, metropolis of the hilly region beyond Jordan, south of the Jabbok, known as “Gilead” (1Ki 4:13; compare Gen 31:21-25).
work iniquity - (Hos 12:11).
polluted with blood - “marked with blood-traces” [Maurer]. Referring to Gilead’s complicity in the regicidal conspiracy of Pekah against Pekahiah (2Ki 15:25). See on Hos 6:1. 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 (Num 35:14; Deu 4:41-43; Jos 20:8). Ramoth-gilead was one.