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 its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding trough, but Israel doesn't know, and my people don't understand.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry, they are broken off, and women come and kindle fires with them, since this is a people who show no consideration. That is why the One who made them shows them no compassion; the One who created them shows them no mercy.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows its seasons, and the dove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time for migration. But my people don't know the requirements of the LORD.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Matthew 23:16
"How terrible it will be for you, blind guides! You say, "Whoever swears an oath by the sanctuary is excused, but whoever swears an oath by the gold of the sanctuary must keep his oath.'
Luke 19:44
They will level you to the ground you and those who live within your city limits. They will not leave one stone on another within your walls, because you didn't recognize the time when you were visited."
John 3:19
And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.
Romans 1:28
Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
2 Peter 3:5
But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God's word out of water and with water,
Honourable men are famished
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the field, I see those slain by the sword! If I go into the city, I see the ravages of the famine! Indeed, both prophet and priest ply their trade in the land, but they don't know anything.'"
Lamentations 4:4
The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
Multitude
Jeremiah 14:3
Their nobles send their young people for water. They go to the cisterns, but they find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They're disappointed and dismayed, and they cover their heads in shame.
Amos 8:13
At that time, the beautiful virgins will faint, as will the strong young men from thirst.