Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:28and choose him out of all the tribes of Israel, to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear the ephod before me? and I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel.
2 Kings 17:16And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;
Job 36:12But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge.
Psalms 119:61The bands of the wicked have wrapped me round: I have not forgotten thy law.
Proverbs 1:30they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:2-6
The Sinfulness of Israel. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Hear 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. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the… Read the whole commentary →