Hosea 6:8

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity,.... The chief city in the land of Gilead, which lay beyond Jordan, inhabited by Gad and Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh; and so belonged to the ten…

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity - If we regard “Gilead,” (as it elsewhere is,) as the country beyond Jordan, where the two tribes and a half dwelt, this will mean that the whole land was…

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity - In this place Jacob and Laban made their covenant, and set up a heap of stones, which was called Galeed, the heap of testimony; and most probably idolatry…

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,…

Two spots of specially ill fame are singled out Gilead and the road to Shechem.