Is there iniquity in Gilead? - The prophet asks the question in order to answer it the more peremptorily. He raises the doubt in or…

This translates as: If Gilead is worthle , surely they have become nothing. In Gilgal they sacrificed bullocks; their altars also are like heap…

The Prophet asks an ironical question: Is there iniquity in Gilead? He scoffs at the madness of those who delighted in such gross vices, e…

[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead ?
&c.] Idolatry there? strange that there should be, seeing it was a city of the pri…

Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade on Canaanite principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit…