Covenant Treachery Appears in Blood-Marked Places and Priestly Ambush

But they like men have transgressed the covenant — and the map will not sit still

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. Like men, like Adam, or at Adam: the same small phrase can point to humanity, to a person, or to a place by the Jordan. The unit will not prove an Adamic-covenant doctrine from that fork. What it will not release is treachery against covenant after God has just asked for hesed.

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. The footprints are the clear image. Exact incident is not recoverable, and that is not a reason to invent one.

Priests as a troop of robbers, and a Judah harvest that will not parse

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. The comparison may be literal ambush or metaphorical betrayal on the Shechem road. Sacred office is denied as a guarantee of safety either way. Lewdness here is a serious wrong too unspecified to become a sexual charge sheet.

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. The last line may threaten, promise, or bridge into 7:1. Do not build a prediction on it. Build on blood and treachery in public and priestly space.