Hosea 4:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

Punish

Hosea 4:17

Isaiah 1:5

Hebrews 12:8

For

1 Corinthians 6:16

And they

1 Kings 14:23

1 Kings 15:12

2 Kings 23:7

Therefore

General references

Proverbs 5:9

Bible References

Punish

Ephraim is joined to idols;

Let him alone.

Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

For

Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”

And they

For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and

Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.

He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

Therefore

Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,

For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness or kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;

Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.

Evil men do not understand justice,
But those who seek the Lord

understand all things.

They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

And the dogs are

greedy, they are not satisfied.

And they are shepherds who have no understanding;
They have all turned to their own way,
Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.

Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

Why do you not understand

what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.

There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God;

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

General references

Or you will give your vigor to others
And your years to the cruel one;