Hosea 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Jeremiah 8:7

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 ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.

For

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.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Now for a long time Israel was without the TRUE God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good. And he who hastens with his feet sins.

When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them

Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? Thou have stricken them, but they were not grieved. Thou have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused t

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

But even if our good-news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing,

I will also reject

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

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

They say to him, Evil men, he will miserably destroy them, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

And having taken him, they killed him, and cast him outside of the vineyard.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it not happen!

Seeing

For Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

And they forsook all the commandments of LORD their God, and made for them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

The cords of the wicked have wrapped me around, [but] I have not forgotten thy law.

For thou have forgotten the God of thy salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of thy strength. Therefore thou plant pleasant plants, and set it with foreign slips.

And having answered, he said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, because of your tradition?

And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? And did I give to the house of thy father all the offerings of the sons of Israel made by fire

In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.

General references

For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.