And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,
and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?
Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom (brought) from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth without.
And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,