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.

Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

And if ye are without chastening, of which all have become participants, then ye are bastards, and not sons.

For

Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.

And they

For they also built for them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were in the house of LORD where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

Therefore

Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.

They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

General references

lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel,