Hosea 4:6

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Hosea 4:6

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Summary

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

My people

For

I will also reject

Luke 20:16

Seeing

General references

Deuteronomy 32:28

Jeremiah 5:4

Ezekiel 44:23

Bible References

My people

My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

“An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”

O My people! Their oppressors are children,
And women rule over them.
O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray
And confuse the direction of your paths.

Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;
And their honorable men are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.

“For My people are foolish,
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to do evil,
But to do good they do not know.”

“Even the stork in the sky

Knows her seasons;

And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush
Observe the time of their migration;
But My people do not know
The ordinance of the Lord.

For

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.

For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law.

“But if they do not hear, they shall perish by the sword
And they will die without knowledge.

Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,
And he who hurries

his footsteps errs.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

“Gather yourselves and come;
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;

They have no knowledge,

Who carry about their wooden idol
And pray to a god who cannot save.

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You have smitten them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

I will also reject

Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.

“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

They *said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”

They took him, and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”

Seeing

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

As they had their pasture, they became satisfied,
And being satisfied, their heart became proud;
Therefore they forgot Me.

They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

The cords of the wicked have encircled me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?

In that day I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

General references

“For they are a nation lacking in counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.

Then I said, “They are only the poor,
They are foolish;
For they do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God.

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.