Hosea 4:6

The Lord Accuses The Priests

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So you will stumble in the daytime,
And the [false] prophet will also stumble with you in the night;
And I will destroy your mother (Israel).
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge [of My law, where I reveal My will].
Because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge,
I will also reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your children. ⁷
The more they multiplied [in numbers and increased in power], the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.

Have No Knowledge

My People

Rejected Knowledge

Lack Of Knowledge

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Isaiah 5:13

Therefore My people go into exile because they lack knowledge [of God];
And their honorable men are famished,
And their common people are parched with thirst.

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces [and pagan temples],
And Judah has built many fortified cities;
But I will send a fire upon their cities so that it may consume their palaces and fortresses.

2 Chronicles 15:3

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

Psalm 119:61

The cords of the wicked have encircled and ensnared me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.

Proverbs 19:2

Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,
And he who hurries with his feet [acting impulsively and proceeding without caution or analyzing the consequences] sins (misses the mark).

Isaiah 1:3

“The ox [instinctively] knows its owner,
And the donkey its master’s feeding trough,
But Israel does not know [Me as Lord],
My people do not understand.”

Isaiah 17:10

Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant lovely plants
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel,
For the Lord has a [legal] case with the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness [no steadfast love, no dependability] or loyalty or kindness
Or knowledge of God [from personal experience with Him] in the land.

Hosea 13:6

When they had their pasture, they became satisfied,
And being satisfied, their heart became proud (self-centered);
Therefore they forgot Me.

Zechariah 11:8-9

Then I eliminated the three [incompetent, unfit] shepherds [the civil rulers, the priests, and the prophets] in one month, for I was impatient with them, and they also were tired of me and despised me.

Zechariah 11:15-17

The Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment [of a shepherd, but this time] of a foolish shepherd.

1 Samuel 2:12

The sons of Eli [Hophni and Phinehas] were worthless (dishonorable, unprincipled) men; they did not know [nor respect] the Lord

1 Samuel 2:28-36

Moreover, I selected 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. And [from then on] I gave to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel.

1 Samuel 3:12-15

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything that I have spoken concerning his house (family), from beginning to end.

2 Kings 17:16-20

They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; and they made an Asherah [idol] and worshiped all the [starry] host of heaven and served Baal.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal has [completely] consumed me,
Because my enemies have forgotten Your words.

Proverbs 1:30-32

They would not accept my counsel,
And they spurned all my rebuke.

Isaiah 3:12

O My people! Children are their oppressors,
And women rule over them.
O My people! Your leaders lead you astray
And confuse (destroy, swallow up) the direction of your paths.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and make a fire with them.
For they are not a people of understanding,
Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 28:7

But even these reel with wine and stagger from strong drink:
The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink;
They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink;
They reel while seeing visions,
They stagger when pronouncing judgment.

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come;
Come together, you survivors of the nations!
They are ignorant,
Who carry around their wooden idols [in religious processions or into battle]
And keep on praying to a god that cannot save them.

Isaiah 56:10-12

Israel’s watchmen are blind,
They are all without knowledge.
They are all mute dogs, they cannot bark;
Panting, lying down, they love to slumber.

Jeremiah 2:8

“[Even] the priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who deal with the law [given to Moses] did not know Me.
The rulers and shepherds also transgressed against Me,
And the prophets prophesied by [the authority and in the name of] Baal
And walked after [idolatrous] things that did not benefit [them].

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are stupid and foolish,” [says the Lord to Jeremiah];
“They do not know Me;
They are foolish children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd [enough] to do evil,
But they do not know [how] to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:3-4

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You [have seen their faithless heart and] have stricken them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction or instruction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent and return to You.

Jeremiah 5:21

‘Now hear this, O foolish people without heart,
Who have eyes but do not see,
Who have ears but do not hear.

Jeremiah 8:7-9

“Even the stork in the sky
Knows her seasons [of migration],
And the turtledove, the swallow and the crane
Observe the time of their return.
But My people do not know
The law of the Lord.

Hosea 2:13

“And I will punish her for the [feast] days of the Baals,
When she used to offer sacrifices and burn incense to them
And adorn herself with her earrings and nose rings and her jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” says the Lord.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their [lifeless] wooden idol, and their [diviner’s] wand gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray [morally and spiritually],
And they have played the prostitute, withdrawing themselves from their God.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire and delight in [steadfast] loyalty [faithfulness in the covenant relationship], rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your lips [announcing impending judgment]!
Like a [great] vulture the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have broken My covenant
And transgressed and rebelled against My law.

Hosea 8:12

I wrote for him the ten thousand precepts of My law,
But they are regarded as a strange thing [which does not concern him].

Malachi 2:1-3

“Now, O priests, this commandment is for you.

Malachi 2:7-9

For the lips of the priest should guard and preserve knowledge [of My law], and the people should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 1:6

Jesse was the father of David the king.

David was the father of Solomon by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Uriah.

Matthew 15:3-6

He replied to them, “Why also do you violate the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition [handed down by the elders]?

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone; they are blind guides [leading blind followers]. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 21:41-45

They said to Him, “He will put those despicable men to a miserable end, and rent out the vineyard to other tenants [of good character] who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”

Matthew 23:16-26

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears [an oath] by the sanctuary of the temple, that is nothing (non-binding); but whoever swears [an oath] by the gold of the temple is obligated [as a debtor to fulfill his vow and keep his promise].’

Mark 12:8-9

So they took him and killed him, and threw his body outside the vineyard.

Luke 20:16-18

He will come and put these tenants to death and will give the vineyard to others.” When the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders heard this, they said, “May it never be!”

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;

Job 36:12

“But if they do not hear and obey, they will die by the sword [of God’s destructive judgments]
And they will die [in ignorance] without [true] knowledge.