Hosea 4:6

New International Version

my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.

Job 36:12

But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal wears me out, for my enemies ignore your words.

Psalm 119:153

Look on my suffering and deliver me, for I have not forgotten your law.

Psalm 119:61

Though the wicked bind me with ropes, I will not forget your law.

Psalm 18:27

You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good— how much more will hasty feet miss the way!

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Isaiah 17:10

You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress. Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines,

Isaiah 27:11

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Isaiah 28:7

And these also stagger from wine and reel from beer: Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering decisions.

Isaiah 29:12

Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

Isaiah 3:12

Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.

Isaiah 45:20

“Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:

Ezekiel 44:23

They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 13:6

When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot,” declares the Lord.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.

Hosea 4:14

“I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes— a people without understanding will come to ruin!

Hosea 5:4

“Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 7:11

“Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless— now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.

Hosea 8:1

“Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the Lord because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.

Hosea 8:12

I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something foreign.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire on their cities that will consume their fortresses.”

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

Matthew 1:6

and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,

Matthew 15:14

Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 15:8

“ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord.