Hosea 4:6

New King James Version

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law;

Job 36:12

But if they do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

Psalm 119:139

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

Psalm 119:153

Consider my affliction and deliver me, For I do not forget Your law.

Psalm 119:61

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

Psalm 18:27

For You will save the humble people, But will bring down haughty looks.

Proverbs 10:21

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

Proverbs 19:2

Also it is not good for a soul to be without knowledge, And he sins who hastens with his feet.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master’s crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider.”

Isaiah 17:10

Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings;

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; The women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding; Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 29:12

Then the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.” And he says, “I am not literate.”

Isaiah 3:12

As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.”

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.

Jeremiah 2:8

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

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 5:21

‘Hear this now, O foolish people, Without understanding, Who have eyes and see not, And who have ears and hear not:

Ezekiel 44:23

“And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 13:6

When they had pasture, they were filled; They were filled and their heart was exalted; Therefore they forgot Me.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot,” says the Lord.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, You children of Israel, For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God.

Hosea 4:14

“I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled.

Hosea 5:4

“They do not direct their deeds Toward turning to their God, For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, And they do not know the Lord.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hosea 7:11

“Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense— They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria.

Hosea 7:9

Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it.

Hosea 8:1

“Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.

Hosea 8:12

I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.

Hosea 8:14

“For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.”

Hosea 9:17

My God will cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Matthew 1:6

and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

Matthew 15:8

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they did not know the Lord.