Hosea 6:9

and as bandits lie in wait for a man, so a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem. How terrible is the evil they do!

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In The King James Version

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

In Context

8Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with bloody footprints,

10In Bethel I have seen a horrible thing. There Ephraim plays the prostitute, Israel is defiled.

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Cross References

Hosea 5:1Hear this, priests! Attend, Israelites! Listen, royal family! For you is the judgment: a snare you have become at Mizpeh, and a net spread out on Tabor,

Hosea 7:1when I would heal Israel, then Ephrain’s guilt is revealed, and Samaria’s crimes are seen, how they practise fraud and the thief enters in, while outside bandits plunder.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:5-11

Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 758.) 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there… Read the whole commentary →

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