Isa 65:11. See GAD 3.
"But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
BAND: gedud, "marauding companies" (1Ch 12:21; Ho 6:9; 7:1).
They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.
As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.