Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

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Bible References

And they that

Jeremiah 8:8
“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;
the law of the Lord is with us’?
In fact, the lying pen of scribes
has produced falsehood.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob
and Your instruction to Israel;
they will set incense before You
and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
Malachi 2:6
True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing wrong was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and fairness and turned many from sin.
Luke 11:52
“Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge! You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”
John 8:55
You’ve never known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I don’t know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
John 16:3
They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.
Romans 2:17
Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.

The pastors

Jeremiah 10:21
For the shepherds are stupid:
they don’t seek the Lord.
Therefore they have not prospered,
and their whole flock is scattered.
Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard;
they have trampled My plot of land.
They have turned My desirable plot
into a desolate wasteland.
Jeremiah 23:1
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Do not

Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
Jeremiah 7:8
But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.
1 Samuel 12:21
Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.
Isaiah 30:5
everyone will be ashamed
because of a people who can’t help.
They are of no benefit, they are no help;
they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.
Habakkuk 2:18
What use is a carved idol
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.
Matthew 16:26
What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

General references

Leviticus 10:11
and teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has given to them through Moses.”

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