So the company of priests murder, &c.— So the company of priests meet together, and murder the traveller at Shechem; that they may execute their wickedness. The prophet seems to mean that wickedness by which those men of the kingdom of Israel who worshipped the true God were prohibited from going to Jerusalem; and who, if they attempted to do so secretly, and were found out, were put to death. See Houbigant.
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Hosea 6:9
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.