Hosea 4:6

The Lord Accuses The Priests

⁵ Therefore thou shalt fall in the day, and the prophet shall also fall with thee by night, and I will cut off thy mother. ⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
⁷ According to their greatness, so did they sin against me; therefore I will change their honour into shame.

Have No Knowledge

My People

Rejected Knowledge

Lack Of Knowledge

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Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their glory died of hunger, and their multitude dried up of thirst.

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For many days Israel has been without the true God, and without a priest and without a teacher and without law,

Psalm 119:61

The company of the wicked have robbed me, but I have not forgotten thy law.

Proverbs 19:2

That the soul be without wisdom is not good, and he that hastens with his feet sins.

Isaiah 1:3

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

Isaiah 17:10

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saving health and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength; therefore thou shalt plant pleasant plants and set it with strange slips:

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, ye sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.

Hosea 13:6

In their pastures, they filled themselves; they were satisfied, and their heart was exalted; for this reason they have forgotten me.

Zechariah 11:8-9

I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was in anguish for them, and their soul also abhorred me.

Zechariah 11:15-17

And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

1 Samuel 2:12

But the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they did not know the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:28-36

And I chose 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 I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings on fire of the sons of Israel.

1 Samuel 3:12-15

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.

2 Kings 17:16-20

And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God and made themselves molten images, even two calves, and made groves and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal;

Psalm 119:139

My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten thy words.

Proverbs 1:30-32

They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Isaiah 3:12

The oppressors of my people are many, and women rule over him. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err and twist the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 27:11

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

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, all ye that are escaped of the Gentiles. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto the god that does not save.

Isaiah 56:10-12

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, they love to slumber.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those that handled the law did not know me; the pastors also rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish; the ignorant sons with no understanding have not known me; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 5:3-4

O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people and without heart, who have eyes and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:

Jeremiah 8:7-9

Even the stork in the heaven knows her appointed time; and the turtle dove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people did not know the judgment of the LORD.

Hosea 2:13

And I will visit upon her the times of the Baals, unto whom she burned incense, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, oblivious of me, saith the LORD.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask counsel of their wooden idol, and their stick declares unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring under their gods.

Hosea 6:6

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

Hosea 8:1

Set the shofar to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.

Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as strange things.

Malachi 2:1-3

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

Malachi 2:7-9

For the priest's lips keep wisdom, and they seek the law at his mouth; for he is an angel of the LORD of the hosts.

Matthew 1:6

Jesse begat David the king; David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

Matthew 15:3-6

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

Matthew 15:8

This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

Matthew 21:41-45

They say unto him, He will destroy those wicked men without mercy and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Matthew 23:16-26

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Mark 12:8-9

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

Luke 20:16-18

He shall come and destroy these husbandmen and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, May it not be!

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

But if our gospel is hid, it is hid to those that are lost,

Job 36:12

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