8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
Hosea 6:8
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1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. 2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
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1 Maccabees 1:36–38
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Psalms 106:37–39
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Proverbs 28:16–18
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7 For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. 8 In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’ 9 Ye…
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