Hosea 5:4
They will not set their thoughts to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
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1 Samuel 2:12But the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, not knowing the Lord,
Psalms 36:1A Psalm of David himself. Do not choose to imitate the malicious; neither should you envy those who work iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit. In their deceitfulness, they have refused to know me, says the Lord.”
Jeremiah 22:15Will you reign because you compare yourself to the cedar? Did your father not eat and drink, and act with judgment and justice, so that it would be well with him?
Jeremiah 50:38A drought is over her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they glory in portents.
Hosea 4:6My people have become silent because they had no knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will drive you away; you do not perform the duties of the priesthood for me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and so I will forget your sons.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:2-8
Charge against Israel and Judah; Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. 4 They will not frame their doings to turn… Read the whole commentary →