何西阿書 6:9

9 強 盜 成 群 ， 怎 樣 埋 伏 殺 人 ， 祭 司 結 黨 ， 也 照 樣 在 示 劍 的 路 上 殺 戮 ， 行 了 邪 惡 。

何西阿書 6:9 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 6:9

And as troops of robbers wait for a man
As a gang of highwaymen or footpads lie in wait in a ditch, or under a hedge, or in a cave of a rock or mountain, for a man they know will come by that way, who is full of money, in order to rob him; or, as Saadiah interprets it, as fishermen stand upon the banks of a river, and cast in their hooks to draw out the fish; and to the same purpose is Jarchi's note from R. Meir: [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent;
not only encourage murderers, and commit murders within the city, but go out in a body together upon the highway, and there commit murders and robberies, and divide the spoil among them; all which they did unanimously, and were well agreed, being brethren in iniquity, as well as in office: or, "in the way of Shechem" ^F5; as good people passed by Gilead to Shechem, and so to Jerusalem, to worship there at the solemn feasts, they lay in wait for them, and murdered them; because they did not give into the idolatrous worship of the calves at Dan and Bethel: or, "in the manner of Shechem" ^F6; that is, they murdered men in a deceitful treacherous manner, as the Shechemites were murdered by Simeon and Levi: Joseph Kimchi interprets this of the princes and great men, so the word "cohanim" is sometimes used; but the context seems to carry it to the priests: for they commit lewdness;
or "enormity"; the most enormous crimes, and that purposely, with deliberation devising and contriving them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (hmkv) "Sichemam versus", Gussetius, Schmidt; approved by Reinbeck. De Accent. Heb. p. 442. "qua itur Sichem", Tigurine version; "qua via ad Shechemum [factum] occidunt", Junius & Tremellius; "quae ducit ad Sichermum", Piscator. So Abendana.
F6 "Sicemice", so some in Drusius.

何西阿書 6:9 In-Context

7 他 們 卻 如 亞 當 背 約 ， 在 境 內 向 我 行 事 詭 詐 。

8 基 列 是 作 孽 之 人 的 城 ， 被 血 沾 染 。

9 強 盜 成 群 ， 怎 樣 埋 伏 殺 人 ， 祭 司 結 黨 ， 也 照 樣 在 示 劍 的 路 上 殺 戮 ， 行 了 邪 惡 。

10 在 以 色 列 家 ， 我 見 了 可 憎 的 事 ； 在 以 法 蓮 那 裡 有 淫 行 ， 以 色 列 被 玷 污 。

11 猶 大 啊 ， 我 使 被 擄 之 民 歸 回 的 時 候 ， 必 有 為 你 所 命 定 的 收 場 。