Hosea 6:10

"As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes."

Key Reflection

Hosea 6:10 uses shocking imagery to contrast the expected holiness of priests with their actual wickedness. Just as robbers lie in wait to attack a passerby, so too do these priests commit heinous acts along the path toward Shechem, betraying their sacred role and defiling God’s name.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I have seen a horrible thing -Literally, “what would make one shudder.” God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fail. In the house of Israel -o: “For what more horrible, more amazing than that this happened, not in any ordinary nation but “in the house of Israel,” in the people of God, in the portion of the Lord, as Moses said, “the Lord’s portion is His people, Jacob is the lot of His inheritance?” In another nation, idolatry was error.

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