Hosea 6:9

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Seperti gerombolan menghadang demikianlah persekutuan para imam; mereka membunuh di jalan ke Sikhem, sungguh, mereka melakukan perbuatan mesum.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Seperti gerombolan menghadang demikianlah persekutuan para imam; mereka membunuh di jalan ke Sikhem, sungguh, mereka melakukan perbuatan mesum.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Seperti orang penyamun mengadang-adang, begitulah pasukan imam-imam; mereka itu membunuh orang di jalan ke Sikhem; bahwasanya mereka itu berbuat barang yang jahat sekali!

Contextual Overview

⁴ O Ephraim, what shall I do vnto thee? O Iuda, howe shall I intreate thee? for your goodnesse is lyke a morning cloude, & like a deawe that goeth early away. ⁵ Therfore haue I cut downe the prophetes, and let them be slayne for my wordes sake, so that thy punishment shall come to light. ⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more then burnt offeringes. ⁷ But euen like as Adam did, so haue they broken my couenaunt, and set me at naught. ⁸ Gilead is a citie of wicked doers, and [is] polluted with blood. ⁹ And as theeues [armed] wayte for him that passeth by the way: suche is the counsell of the priestes, which with one agreed counsell murther cruelly suche as kepe the way, yea they dare do all vnspeakable mischiefe. ¹⁰ Horrible thinges haue I seene in the house of Israel: there is the fornication of Ephraim, and Israel is defiled. ¹¹ Yea, and thou Iuda kepest an haruest for thy selfe, when I returne the captiuitie of my people.

Bible Verse Review
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as troops: Hosea 7:1, Ezra 8:31, Job 1:15-17, Proverbs 1:11-19

so: Hosea 5:1, Jeremiah 11:9, Ezekiel 22:27, Micah 3:9, Zephaniah 3:3, Mark 14:1, Luke 22:2-6, John 11:47, Acts 4:24

by consent: Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem, 1 Kings 12:25

lewdness: or, enormity

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:34 - wicked men Psalms 119:61 - The bands Ezekiel 22:9 - they commit Ezekiel 22:25 - like Hosea 4:2 - toucheth Hosea 4:7 - they were Hosea 5:2 - the revolters Luke 10:31 - priest

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

Genesis 5:1
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Genesis 5:24
And Henoch walked with God: and he was no more seene, for God toke him away.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:15
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.

Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" e; 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" f; 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.

e שכמה "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. f "Sicemice", so some in Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent - Or (more probably) “in the way to Shechem.” Shechem too was a “city of refuge” John 20:7, and so also a city of Levites and priests John 21:21. It was an important city. For there Joshua assembled all Israel for his last address to them, and made a covenant with them John 24:1, 25. There, Rehoboam came to be accepted by Israel as their king 1 Kings 12:1, and was rejected by them. There Jeroboam after the schism, for a time, made his residence 1 Kings 12:25. The priests were banded together; their counsel was one; they formed one company; but they were bound together as a band of robbers, not to save people’s lives but to destroy them. Whereas the way to the cities of refuge was, by God’s law, to be “prepared” Deuteronomy 19:3, clear, open, without let or hindrance to the guiltless fugitive, to save his life, the priests, the guardians of God’s law, obstructed the way, to roll and destroy. They, whom God appointed to teach the truth that people might live, were banded together against His law.

Shechem, besides that it was a city of refuge, was also hallowed by the memory of histories of the patriarchs who walked with God. There, was Jacob’s well John 4:5-6; there Joseph’s bones were buried Joshua 24:32; and the memory of the patriarch Jacob was cherished there, even to the time of our Lord John 4:5-6. Lying in a narrow valley between Mount Ebal and Gerizim, it was a witness, as it were, of the blessing and curse pronounced from them, and had, in the times of Joshua, an ancient sanctuary of God Joshua 24:26. It was a halting-place for the pilgrims of the northern tribes, in their way to the feasts at Jerusalem; so that these murders by the priests coincide with the tradition of the Jews, that they who would go up to Jerusalem were murdered in the way.

For they commit lewdness - Literally, “For they have done deliberate sin” . The word literally means “a thing thought of,” especially an evil, and so, deliberate, contrived, bethought-of, wickedness. They did deliberate wickedness, gave themselves to do it, and did nothing else.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 6:9. As troops of robbers — What a sad picture is this of the state of the priesthood! The country of Gilead was infamous for its robberies and murders. The idolatrous priests there formed themselves into companies, and kept possession of the roads and passes; and if they found any person going to Jerusalem to worship the true God, they put him to death. The reason is given:-

For they commit lewdness. — They are gross idolaters.