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 should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

But if you be without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are you illegitimate children, and not sons.

For

What? know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh.

And they

For they also built them high places, and images, and idol poles, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

And he took away the male prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

And he broke down the houses of the male prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the idol pole.

Therefore

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall stumble in them.

Evil men understand not justice: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Yea, they are greedy dogs who can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, everyone for his gain, from his own quarter.

Many shall be purified, and made white, and refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.

There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

General references

Lest you give your honor unto others, and your years unto the merciless: