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 seek advice from their wooden idols, and their rod declares to them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to go astray, and they have gone lusting away from under their God.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.

As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.

For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her seasons; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow watch the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah.

For

Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people 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.

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

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

Also without knowledge the soul is not good, and he who hurries with his feet sins.

When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore His Maker will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will not favor them.

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.

O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than 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 also if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those being lost,

I will also reject

I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also despised me.

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

They said to Him, Bad men! He will miserably destroy them and will rent out his vineyard to other vinedressers who will give 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 vinedressers and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard this, they said, Let it not be!

Seeing

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces.

According to their pasture, so were they filled. They were filled and their heart was lifted up. Therefore they have forgotten Me.

And they left all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made molten images, two calves, for themselves. And they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host 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 you shall plant pleasant plants and shall sow it a fresh shoot.

But He answered and said to 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 to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire from the sons of Israel?

In that day I will confirm to Eli all that which I have spoken as to his house, beginning and making an end.

General references

For they are a nation without wisdom, neither is there any understanding in them.

So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.

And they shall teach My people to discern between the holy and common, and between the unclean and the clean.