Hosea 6:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Hosea 6:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 5:7
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Genesis 3:11
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Jeremiah 9:6
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Job 31:33
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-11)

Two things, two evil things, both Judah and Ephraim are here charged with, and justly accused of:— I. That they were not firm to their own convictions, but were unsteady, unstable as water, Hos. 6:4, 5. O Ephraim! what shall I do unto thee? O Judah! what shall I do unto thee? This is a strange expression. Can Infinite Wisdom be at a loss what to do? Can it be nonplussed, or put upon taking new mea…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. 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.