Hosea 6:9

Overview - Hosea 6
Exhortations to repent and hope in God.
A lamentation over those who had sinned after conviction.
Reproofs of obstinate sinners, and threatenings against them.
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Hosea 6:9  (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.
 


as troops
7:1 Ezra 8:31 ; Job 1:15-17 ; Proverbs 1:11-19

so
5:1 Jeremiah 11:9 ; Ezekiel 22:27 ; Micah 3:9 ; Zephaniah 3:3 ; Mark 14:1 ; Luke 22:2-6
John 11:47 ; Acts 4:24

by consent
Hebrew with one shoulder, or, to Shechem.
1 Kings 12:25

lewdness
or, enormity.