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Hosea 6:9

Hosea 6:9

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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

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