Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Iniquity
Surely
They sacrifice
Their altars
Bible References
Iniquity
Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, saith unto Ahab, 'Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I have stood, there is not these years dew and rain, except according to my word.'
Surely
Jeremiah 10:8
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.
Jonah 2:8
Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
They sacrifice
Hosea 4:15
Though a harlot thou art, O Israel, Let not Judah become guilty, And come not ye in to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, Nor swear ye, Jehovah liveth.
Hosea 9:15
All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates.
Amos 4:4
Enter ye Beth-El, and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression, And bring in every morning your sacrifices, Every third year your tithes.
Amos 5:5
And seek not Beth-El, and Gilgal enter not, And Beer-Sheba pass not through, For Gilgal doth utterly remove, And Beth-El doth become vanity.
Their altars
Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
Hosea 10:1
An empty vine is Israel, Fruit he maketh like to himself, According to the abundance of his fruit, He hath multiplied for the altars, According to the goodness of his land, They have made goodly standing-pillars.
2 Kings 17:9
and the sons of Israel do covertly things that are not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city,
Jeremiah 2:20
For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, 'I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.