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 at their stocks, and their staff declareth to them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone astray from under their God.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy 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 sottish children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Yes, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

For

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath 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 season Israel hath 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, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

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, ye that have escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

O LORD, are not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast 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 leadeth the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

But if our gospel is 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 lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

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

They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

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

He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, may that never be.

Seeing

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

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 for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign slips:

But he answered and said to them, Why do ye 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 thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?

In that day I will perform against Eli all 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 judgment of their God.

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