Hosea 4:6

My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

In Context

5And thou shalt fall to day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.

7According to the multitude of them so have they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:28And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my sitar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the sacrifices of the children of Israel.

2 Kings 17:16And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal.

Job 36:12But if they hear not, they shall pass by the sword, and shall be consumed in folly.

Proverbs 1:30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

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 →

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