Hosea 4:6: Israelite Ignorance: Cross References

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The key takeaways are that the Israelites were destroyed due to a lack of knowledge about God and his laws. God rejected the Israelites as his priests and would forget their children because they rejected knowledge and ignored God's laws.

The Israelites rejected knowledge of God by asking counsel from idols instead of God, going after other gods like Baal, and erring from God due to whoredoms. They did not consider or know God as their creator.

God said he would reject the Israelites as priests and not accept their sacrifices. He would also forget their children. The Israelites would be destroyed and go into exile due to their lack of understanding.

HOSEA 4:6: ISRAELITE IGNORANCE

New International Version

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected
knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your
God, I also will ignore your children.

CROSS REFERENCES
PSALM 119:153
Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law.
PROVERBS 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
ISAIAH 5:13
Therefore my people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their
dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
JEREMIAH 5:4
Then I said, "They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know
the way of the lord, the justice of their god.
EZEKIEL 44:23
They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and
show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
HOSEA 2:13
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she
decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,"
declares the LORD.
HOSEA 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-
in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes
and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will
come to ruin.
TREASURY OF SCRIPTURE
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected
knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have
forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

MY PEOPLE.
HOSEA 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the
spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from
under their God.
ISAIAH 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider.
ISAIAH 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my
people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

DESTROYED.
HOSEA 4:1
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.
HOSEA 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt
offerings.
2 CHRONICLES 15:3
Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching
priest, and without law.
BECAUSE.
1 SAMUEL 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
PROVERBS 1:30-32
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof…
ISAIAH 28:7
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way;
the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of
wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in
judgment.

I WILL ALSO REJECT.


ZECHARIAH 11:8, 9, 15-17
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul
also abhorred me…
MALACHI 2:1-3, 9
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you…
MATTHEW 21:41-45
They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his
vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons…

SEEING.
HOSEA 8:14
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied
fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces
thereof.
HOSEA 13:6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was
exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
2 KINGS 17:16-20
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten
images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven,
and served Baal…

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