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

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

For

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

And they

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

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

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

Therefore

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath 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 fall therein.

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

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

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

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

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

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh 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 thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: