Hosea 4:6

The Lord Accuses The Priests

⁵ You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction. ⁶ Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory. ⁷ Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

Have No Knowledge

My People

Rejected Knowledge

Lack Of Knowledge

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Isaiah 5:13

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

2 Chronicles 15:3

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

Psalm 119:61

The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.

Proverbs 19:2

Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

Isaiah 1:3

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

Isaiah 17:10

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

Hosea 4:1

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 13:6

When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

Zechariah 11:8-9

And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

Zechariah 11:15-17

And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:28-36

Did I take him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to go up to my altar to make the smoke of the offerings go up and to take up the ephod? Did I give to your father's family all the offerings made by fire by the children of Israel?

1 Samuel 3:12-15

In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.

2 Kings 17:16-20

And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

Psalm 119:139

My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

Proverbs 1:30-32

They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Isaiah 28:7

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

Isaiah 45:20

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

Isaiah 56:10-12

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Jeremiah 5:3-4

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Jeremiah 5:21

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

Jeremiah 8:7-9

Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

Hosea 2:13

And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

Hosea 4:12

My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

Hosea 6:6

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

Hosea 8:1

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

Hosea 8:12

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

Malachi 2:1-3

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

Malachi 2:7-9

For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

Matthew 1:6

And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;

Matthew 15:3-6

And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

Matthew 15:8

These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Matthew 15:14

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Matthew 21:41-45

They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

Matthew 23:16-26

A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

Mark 12:8-9

And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

Luke 20:16-18

He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

Job 36:12

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.