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 are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you are bastards and not sons.

For

Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, The two shall be one flesh.

And they

For they also built high places for themselves, and images, and Asherahs, 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 broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were by the house of Jehovah, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.

Therefore

Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people 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? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

Evil men do not understand judgment; but those who seek Jehovah understand all things.

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

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

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 you not know My speech? 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 to others and your years to the cruel;