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, consult {their wooden idols}, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led [them] astray, and they played the whore from under their God.

An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.

Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, [and] their nobles [will be] men of hunger, and their multitude [is] parched [with] thirst.

"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."

Even [the] stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and [the] turtledove, and [the] swallow, and [the] song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh.

For

Hear the word of Yahweh, children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land.

Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Now Israel [has been] without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

But if they do not listen, they perish by [the] sword, and they pass away without knowledge.

Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with [his] feet {misses the mark}.

{When its branches are dry}, they are broken; women [are] coming [and] setting light to it. For it [is] not a people of understanding; therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor.

Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry {their wooden idols} and pray to a god who cannot save.

Yahweh, do not your eyes [look] for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.

Let them! They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

But if indeed our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing,

I will also reject

And I got rid of three shepherds in one month, for {I grew impatient} with them, and {they also became tired of me}.

"And so then, O priests, this command [is] for you:

They said to him, "He will destroy those evil [men] completely and lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruits in their season."

And they seized [and] killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

He will come and destroy those tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others." And [when they] heard [this], they said, "[May this] never happen!"

Seeing

Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities and it will devour her strongholds.

When I fed them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.

They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal.

[The] cords of [the] wicked surround me, [but] I do not forget your law.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge; therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, and you {plant} a vine of a foreigner.

So he answered [and] said to them, "Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition?

And I chose him from all the tribes of Israel to be a priest to me, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to bear an ephod before me. I gave to the house of your ancestor all the offerings made by fire by the {Israelites}.

On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken against his household, {from beginning to end}.

General references

For {they are a nation void of sense}, and there is not [any] understanding in them.

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.

And they will teach my people [the difference] between what is holy and what is unholy, and [the difference] between unclean and clean they must show them.