Hosea 6:9

King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

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  • Hos 7:1 : 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falseod; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth witut.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye use of Israel; and give ye ear, O use of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
  • Mic 3:9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
  • Mark 14:1 : 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
  • Luke 22:2-6 : 2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. 3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. 4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. 5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. 6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
  • John 11:47 : 47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
  • 1 Kgs 12:25 : 25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
  • Ezra 8:31 : 31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
  • Job 1:15-17 : 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
  • Prov 1:11-19 : 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk ivily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all ecious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is sead in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk ivily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
  • Jer 11:9 : 9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of usalem.
  • Ezek 22:9 : 9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  • Acts 4:24 : 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one cord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

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    9In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

    10In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

    11And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • 10I have seen an rrible thing in the use of Israel: there is the wredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

  • 4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

  • 7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the se maid, to profane my holy ne:

  • 13For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

    3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 25And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

  • 9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • 26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Hos 4:8-9
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    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

    9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

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  • 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • 6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • 1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falseod; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth witut.

  • Hos 5:1-2
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    1Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye use of Israel; and give ye ear, O use of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

    2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, tugh I have been a rebuker of them all.

  • 15What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

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    25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

    26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

    27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  • 11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

  • 2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

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    13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

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  • 11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

  • 10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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    10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

    11For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

  • 9The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • 21How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • 45And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

  • 18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk ivily for their own lives.

  • 26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

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    6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

    7How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • 2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • 3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • 2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • 9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

  • 11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

  • 16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.