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 ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore His Maker will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will not favor them.
Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her seasons; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow watch the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.
Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, blind guides, saying, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
Luke 19:44
And they will tear you down, and your children within you, and will not leave a stone on a stone because you did not know the time of your visitation.
John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,
2 Peter 3:5
For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,
Honourable men are famished
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the field, then I see those killed with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, sicknesses of famine! Yes, both the prophet and the priest have gone up into a land that they do not know.
Lamentations 4:4
The suckling's tongue cleaves to his palate in thirst; the young children ask bread; there is no breaking to them.
Multitude
Jeremiah 14:3
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters; they came to the cisterns, and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
Amos 8:13
In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.