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 are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• Prov 19:2Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
• Hos 6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• 2 Cor 4:3–6But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
• Hos 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Matt 15:8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
• Prov 1:30–32They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
• Isa 17:10Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
• Hos 8:14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
• 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 the LORD of hosts.
• 2 Chr 15:3Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
• Jer 2:8The 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.
• Mal 2:1–3And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
• 1 Sam 3:12–15In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
• Hos 13:6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
• Jer 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Isa 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
• Jer 8:7–9Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
• Job 36:12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
• Luke 20:16–18He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
• Jer 5:21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
• 2 Kgs 17:16–20And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
• Ps 119:61The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
• Jer 5:3–4O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast 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 hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
• Isa 3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
• Isa 56:10–12His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Hos 8:1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
• 1 Sam 2:12Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
• Hos 4:12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
• Hos 8:12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
• Hos 2:13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
• 1 Sam 2:28–36And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
• Matt 21:41–45They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
• Zech 11:8–9Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
• Mark 12:8–9And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
• Matt 15:14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
• Isa 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
• Isa 45:20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
• Matt 15:3–6But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

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