Hosea 4:6
My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:28And I chose the house of thy father out of all the tribes of Israel to minister to me in the priest’s office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear an ephod. And I gave to the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel for food.
2 Kings 17:16They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves graven images, even two heifers, and they made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
Job 36:12But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, 1 And because when reproved they were disobedient. 1
Proverbs 1:30Neither would they attend to my counsels, 1 But derided my reproofs. 1
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.
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 →