Hosea 6:9 (NLT) reads:

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> Priests form bands of robbers, waiting in ambush for their victims. They murder travelers along the road to Shechem and practice every kind of sin.
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Hosea seems intent on naming specific places (for example, see [this question](https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1761/gilgal-and-beth-aven-in-hosea-415)). What is the significance of Shechem being named here? Is it merely to give the prophecy vivid, down-to-earth images that people could picture from their experience, or is there a deeper reason why Shechem is named as the place to which people are traveling when they are murdered by the priests? Is there a connection to [the slaughter of Shechem by Simeon and Levi](http://nlt.scripturetext.com/genesis/34.htm)?