Hosea 6:9

Good News Translation

The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately!

Cross References

Genesis 12:6

Abram traveled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.)

1 Kings 12:25

King Jeroboam of Israel fortified the town of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there for a while. Then he left and fortified the town of Penuel.

Ezra 8:31

It was on the twelfth day of the first month that we left the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. Our God was with us and protected us from enemy attacks and from ambush as we traveled.

Jeremiah 11:9

Then the Lord said to me, “The people of Judah and of Jerusalem are plotting against me.

Ezekiel 22:25

The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.

Ezekiel 22:27

The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.

Ezekiel 22:9

Some of your people tell lies about others in order to have them put to death. Some of them eat sacrifices offered to idols. Some are always satisfying their lusts.

Ezekiel 23:27

I will put a stop to your lust and to the obscenities you have committed ever since you were in Egypt. You won't look at any more idols or think about Egypt any more.”

Hosea 2:10

I will strip her naked in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to save her from my power.

Hosea 4:2

They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

Hosea 5:1

“Listen to this, you priests! Pay attention, people of Israel! Listen, you that belong to the royal family! You are supposed to judge with justice—so judgment will fall on you! You have become a trap at Mizpah, a net spread on Mount Tabor,

Hosea 5:2

a deep pit at Acacia City, and I will punish all of you.

Hosea 7:1

“Whenever I want to heal my people Israel and make them prosperous again, all I can see is their wickedness and the evil they do. They cheat one another; they break into houses and steal; they rob people in the streets.

Micah 3:9

Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.

Micah 7:2

There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are like roaring lions; its judges are like hungry wolves, too greedy to leave a bone until morning.

Mark 14:1

It was now two days before the Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.

John 11:47

So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, “What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing!

Acts 4:24

When the believers heard it, they all joined together in prayer to God: “Master and Creator of heaven, earth, and sea, and all that is in them!