Hosea 6:8

A Call To Yahweh

⁷ Like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there. ⁸ Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.
⁹ As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do bands of priests. They murder on the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

With Blood

Workers of Iniquity

Gilead

Hosea 12:11

The people of Gilead are evil. They are worthless. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal. But their altars will become like piles of rubble beside a plowed field.

Joshua 21:38

From the tribe of Gad they received four cities: Ramoth in Gilead, with pasturelands, one of the cities of refuge, Mahanaim,

2 Samuel 3:27

Abner arrived in Hebron. Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him. There he stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 20:8

Amasa met them at the large rock in Gibeon. Joab wore a military uniform. He strapped a sword in a scabbard at his hip. He stepped forward and the sword dropped into his hand.

1 Kings 2:5

Remember what Joab did to me by killing the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. You remember how he murdered them in time of peace. This was revenge for deaths they had caused in time of war. He killed innocent men. I bear the responsibility for what he did. I suffer the consequences.

Psalm 10:8

He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. He searches for victims.

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from troublemakers. Save me from bloodthirsty people.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs cannot be used for clothes. They cannot cover themselves with their works for their works are evil. Their hands have committed acts of violence.

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore.

Hosea 4:2

They do nothing but swear, deceive, kill, steal and commit adultery! There is violence and bloodshed in the land.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O you priests and pay attention, O house of Israel. Give ear (listen)! O house of the king the judgment is about you. You have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

Micah 7:2

The godly (loyal) (holy) man has perished from the earth. There is none upright among men! They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his own brother with a net.

Matthew 26:15-16

He asked them: What are you willing to give me to deliver him to you? They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Acts 23:12-15

When day arrived some of the Jews came together and united with an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 25:3

They desired favor against him that he would transfer him to Jerusalem. Then they would ambush him along the way and kill him.