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 ask counsel of their idols of wood, and their staff advises unto them: for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot against their God.

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

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

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.

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

For

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

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

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

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

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

When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

I will also reject

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their souls also abhorred me.

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

They said unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other tenants, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

He shall come and destroy these tenants, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Seeing

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his palaces.

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

And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an idol pole and worshiped all the army of heaven, and served Baal.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.

Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with imported seedlings:

But he answered and said unto them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of your father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?

In that day I will perform against Eli all the things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

General references

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the 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.