Hosea 4:6

The Lord Accuses The Priests

⁵ You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your 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 The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

Have No Knowledge

My People

Rejected Knowledge

Lack Of Knowledge

No

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

Psalm 119:61

Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget your law.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."

Isaiah 17:10

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

Hosea 13:6

but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.

Zechariah 11:8-9

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Zechariah 11:15-17

Then the LORD said to me, "Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:28-36

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? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.

1 Samuel 3:12-15

On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

2 Kings 17:16-20

And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget your words.

Proverbs 1:30-32

would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof,

Isaiah 3:12

My people--infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 45:20

"Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 56:10-12

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

"For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'--in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."

Jeremiah 5:3-4

O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 5:21

"Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

Jeremiah 8:7-9

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.

Hosea 2:13

And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD.

Hosea 4:12

My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.

Hosea 8:12

Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

Malachi 2:1-3

"And now, O priests, this command is for you.

Malachi 2:7-9

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 1:6

and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,

Matthew 15:3-6

He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Matthew 15:8

"'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."

Matthew 21:41-45

They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons."

Mark 12:8-9

And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

Luke 20:16-18

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "Surely not!"

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.

Job 36:12

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