Hosea 12:11 meaning and explanation
Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
Hosea 12:11, Berean Standard Bible
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Hosea 12:11 falls within the LORD's charge against Israel, spoken through the prophet Hosea in the northern kingdom's last years. Gilead, east of the Jordan, and Gilgal, near Jericho, held shrines where Israel sacrificed, yet the prophet's rhetorical questions expect a yes: iniquity was there, and these places would come to nothing.
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