Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Because
Honourable men are famished
Multitude
Bible References
Because
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them
Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.
Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, Whoever may swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.
Luke 19:44
And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.
John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.
Romans 1:28
And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;
2 Peter 3:5
For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,
Honourable men are famished
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
Multitude
Jeremiah 14:3
And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads,
Amos 8:13
In that day the fair virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.