Hosea 4:6
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 also will forget thy children.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
7The more they were increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:28And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to go up unto Mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before Me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
2 Kings 17:16and they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal;
Job 36:12But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Psalms 119:61The bands of the wicked have enclosed me; but 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; but Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
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 →