English Standard Version
Hosea 6:7
7But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Hosea 6:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
- New International Version (NIV)As at Adam, they have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But like Adam, you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust.
Context of Hosea 6:7
5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light. 6For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me. 8Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood. 9As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.
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וְהֵ֕מָּה כְּאָדָ֖ם עָבְר֣וּ בְרִ֑ית שָׁ֖ם בָּ֥גְדוּ בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Hosea 6:7
- Genesis 3:6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
- Job 31:33if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
- Hosea 8:1Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.
- 2 Kings 17:15They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
- Isaiah 24:5The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
- Jeremiah 31:32not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:59"For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
- Hebrews 8:9not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
- Hosea 5:7They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
- Isaiah 24:16From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, "I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed."
- Isaiah 48:8You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.
- Jeremiah 3:7And I thought, 'After she has done all this she will return to me,' but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
- Jeremiah 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly treacherous to me, declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 9:6Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
Commentaries on Hosea 6:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7But they like men (כאדם keadam, "like Adam") have transgressed the covenant - They have sinned against light and knowledge as he did. This is sense, the other is scarcely so. There was a striking similarity in the two cases. Adam, in Paradise, transgressed the commandment, and I cast him out: Israel, in possession of the promised land, transgressed my covenant, and I cast them out, and sent them into captivity.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7But they like men - Or (better as in the E. M) “like Adam, have transgressed the covenant.” As Adam our first parent, in Paradise, not out of any pressure, but wantonly, through self-will and pride, broke the covenant of God, eating the forbidden fruit, and then defended himself in his sin against God, casting the blame upon the woman: so these, in the good land which God had given them, “that they should” therein “keep His covenant and observe His laws”…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-11Verses 4-11 Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore the Lord sent awful messages by the prophets. The word of God will be the death either of the sin or of the sinner. God desired mercy rather than sacrifice, and that knowledge of him which produces holy fear and love. This exposes the folly of those…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-11Hosea describes how human rebellion against God started with Adam and spread through Israel's cities to Judah.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. like men--the common sort of men (Psa 82:7). Not as Margin, "like Adam," Job 31:33. For the expression "covenant" is not found elsewhere applied to Adam's relation to God; though the thing seems implied (Ro 5:12-19). Israel "transgressed the covenant" of God as lightly as men break everyday compacts with their fellow men. there--in the northern kingdom, Israel.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hosea 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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