Hosea 4:6

Legacy Standard Bible

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from ministering as My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I Myself also will forget your children.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

Now for many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law.

Job 36:12

“But if they do not hear, they shall pass away by a weapon And they will breathe their last without knowledge.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal has consumed me, Because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.

Psalm 119:153

¶See my affliction and rescue me, For I do not forget Your law.

Psalm 119:61

The cords of the wicked have encircled me, But I have not forgotten Your law.

Psalm 18:27

For You save an afflicted people, But eyes which are lifted up, You bring down.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, But ignorant fools die for lack of a heart of wisdom.

Proverbs 19:2

Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, And he who hurries his footsteps sins.

Isaiah 1:3

“An ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master’s manger, But Israel does not know; My people do not perceive.”

Isaiah 17:10

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation And have not remembered the rock of your strong defense. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine branches of a strange god.

Isaiah 27:11

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and light a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 28:7

And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; They are swallowed up by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while having visions; They totter when rendering a verdict.

Isaiah 29:12

Then the book will be given to the one who does not know how to read a book, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I do not know how to read a book.”

Isaiah 3:12

O My people! Their taskmasters are infants, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And swallow up the way of your paths.

Isaiah 45:20

¶“Gather yourselves and come; Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations; They do not know, Who carry about their graven image of wood And pray to a god who cannot save.

Isaiah 5:13

¶Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge; And their honorable men are famished, And their multitude is parched with thirst.

Jeremiah 2:8

“The priests did not say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ And those who handle the law did not know Me; The shepherds also transgressed against Me, And the prophets prophesied by Baal And walked after things that did not profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are ignorant fools, They know Me not; They are simpleminded children And have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”

Jeremiah 5:21

‘Now hear this, O people who are simpleminded fools and without a heart of wisdom, Who have eyes but do not see, Who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 44:23

Moreover, they shall instruct My people about the difference between the holy and the profane, and make them know the difference between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 13:6

As they had their pasture, then they became satisfied, Indeed, they were satisfied, and their heart became raised up; Therefore they forgot Me.

Hosea 2:13

“So I will visit the days of the Baals upon her When she used to offer offerings in smoke to them And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry And go after her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares Yahweh.

Hosea 4:1

Listen to the word of Yahweh, O sons of Israel, For Yahweh has a contention against the inhabitants of the land, Because there is no truth or lovingkindness Or knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand declares to them; For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot Or your brides when they commit adultery, For the men themselves go apart with harlots And offer sacrifices with cult prostitutes; So the people without understanding are ruined.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a spirit of harlotry is within them, And they do not know Yahweh.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in lovingkindness rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without a heart of wisdom; They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers devour his power, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.

Hosea 8:1

Put the trumpet to your mouth! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of Yahweh Because they have trespassed against My covenant And transgressed against My law.

Hosea 8:12

Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are counted as a strange thing.

Hosea 8:14

So Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

Hosea 9:17

My God will despise them Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be those who flee among the nations.

Matthew 1:6

And Jesse was the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were vile men; they did not know Yahweh.