8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood. 9 Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities. 10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:8–10
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