New American Standard Bible 1995
Hosea 6:7
7But 1like 2Adam they have 3transgressed the covenant; There they have 4dealt treacherously against 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me.
Context of Hosea 6:7
5Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth; And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth. 6For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously against Me. 8Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints. 9And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime.
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וְהֵ֕מָּה כְּאָדָ֖ם עָבְר֣וּ בְרִ֑ית שָׁ֖ם בָּ֥גְדוּ בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Hosea 6:7
- Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Job 31:33Have I covered my transgressions like Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
- Hosea 8:1Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.
- 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them not to do like them.
- Isaiah 24:5The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.
- Jeremiah 31:32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:59For thus says the Lord God, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
- Hebrews 8:9Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord.
- Hosea 5:7They have dealt treacherously against the Lord, For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their land.
- Isaiah 24:16From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory to the Righteous One,” But I say, “Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
- Isaiah 48:8You have not heard, you have not known. Even from long ago your ear has not been open, Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously; And you have been called a rebel from birth.
- Jeremiah 3:7I thought, ‘After she has done all these things 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 dealt very treacherously with Me,” declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 9:6Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through 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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