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

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 get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

For

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

I will also reject

And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

And now, O you priests, this order is for you.

They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

Seeing

For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

Did I take him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to go up to my altar to make the smoke of the offerings go up and to take up the ephod? Did I give to your father's family all the offerings made by fire by the children of Israel?

In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.

General references

For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.