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 bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!
Isaiah 27:11
When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For they have no understanding (discernment). Their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you! You will not be a priest to me since you have forgotten the Law of your God. Therefore, I will forget your children.
Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, you blind guides! You say, 'When you swear by the temple, it is nothing.' Then you say, 'When you swear by the gold of the temple, you are obligated.'
Luke 19:44
They will knock you and your children down to the ground. They will not leave one stone upon another. What's more you do not know when this visit will take place.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.
Romans 1:28
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.
2 Peter 3:5
For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,
Honourable men are famished
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.'
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink. The young children cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
Multitude
Jeremiah 14:3
Important people send their assistants out for water. They do not find any water at the cisterns. They return with their containers empty. They cover their heads, because they are ashamed and dishonored.
Amos 8:13
In that day the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.