Hosea 6:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ As robbers lie in wait for someone, so the priests are banded together; they murder on the road to Shechem; they commit a monstrous crime.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And as troops of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the road toward Shechem; yes, they commit villainy and outrages.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.

Common English Bible

⁹ As robbers lie in wait for someone, so the priests are in league with each other; they murder on the road to Shechem; they have done evil things.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And, like those who rob with skillful words, they, by conspiring with the priests, bring a death sentence to travelers on a pilgrimage from Shechem; for they have been performing evil deeds.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

Hosea 6:9 Cross References

Genesis 12:6

Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

1 Kings 12:25

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and resided there; he went out from there and built Penuel.

Ezra 8:31

Then we left the River Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem; the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes along the way.

Jeremiah 11:9

And the Lord said to me: Conspiracy exists among the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

Ezekiel 22:27

Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.

Ezekiel 23:27

So I will put an end to your lewdness and your prostitution brought from the land of Egypt; you shall not long for them or remember Egypt any more.

Hosea 2:10

Now I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you, for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor

Hosea 5:2

and a pit dug deep in Shittim, but I will punish all of them.

Hosea 7:1

when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Micah 7:2

The faithful have disappeared from the land, and there is no one left who is upright; they all lie in wait for blood, and they hunt each other with nets.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Mark 14:1

It was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him,

John 11:47

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

Acts 4:24

When they heard it, they raised their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and everything in them,