Hosea 4:6

God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, having rejected His law, so He will reject the priests in turn. Willful ignorance of God brings ruin.

Cross-references · 40

• Isa 5:13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
• Prov 19:2It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
• Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• 2 Cor 4:3–6Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
• Hos 4:1Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Matt 15:8‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
• Prov 1:30–32They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
• Isa 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
• Hos 8:14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
• Mal 2:7–9For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
• 2 Chr 15:3Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
• Jer 2:8The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and followed things that do not profit.
• Mal 2:1–3“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
• 1 Sam 3:12–15In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
• Hos 13:6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
• Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Isa 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
• Jer 8:7–9Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.
• Job 36:12But if they don’t listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.
• Luke 20:16–18He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”
• Jer 5:21‘Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears, and don’t hear:
• 2 Kgs 17:16–20They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
• Ps 119:61The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
• Jer 5:3–4O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
• Ps 119:139My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
• Isa 3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
• Isa 56:10–12His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Hos 8:1“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
• 1 Sam 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
• Hos 4:12My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
• Hos 8:12I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
• Hos 2:13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 2:28–36Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
• Matt 21:41–45They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
• Zech 11:8–9I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
• Mark 12:8–9They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
• Matt 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
• Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
• Isa 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
• Matt 15:3–6He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

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