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 with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."

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

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.

For

Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

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

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

But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

"Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were 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.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

I will also reject

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."

They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

Seeing

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."

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

They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.

General references

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.