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My people are ρdestroyed forw 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.

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Isa. 5:13• ¹³Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst. (Isa. 5:13)

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My people.

Hos. 4:12• ¹²My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God: (Hos. 4:12)

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Isa. 1:3• ³The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence. (Isa. 1:3)

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Isa. 3:12• ¹²As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths. (Isa. 3:12)

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Isa. 5:13• ¹³Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst. (Isa. 5:13)

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Jer. 4:22• ²²For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. (Jer. 4:22)

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Jer. 8:7• ⁷Even a stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of Jehovah. (Jer. 8:7)

destroyed.

Heb. cut off.

for.

Hos. 4:1• ¹Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. (Hos. 4:1)

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Hos. 6:6• ⁶For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. (Hos. 6:6)

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2 Chron. 15:3• ³Now for a long while Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law; (2 Chron. 15:3)

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Job 36:12• ¹²But if they hearken not, they shall pass away by the sword, and expire without knowledge. (Job 36:12)

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Prov. 19:2• ²Also that a person be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet maketh false steps. (Prov. 19:2)

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Isa. 27:11• ¹¹When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour. (Isa. 27:11)

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Isa. 45:20• ²⁰Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a *god that cannot save. (Isa. 45:20)

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Jer. 5:3‑4,21• ³Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
⁴And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.
²¹Hear now this, O foolish and heartless people, who have eyes and see not; who have ears, and hear not. (Jer. 5:3‑4,21)

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Matt. 15:14• ¹⁴Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch. (Matt. 15:14)

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2 Cor. 4:3‑6• ³But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;
⁴in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.
⁵For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.
⁶Because it is the God who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 4:3‑6)

because.

1 Sam. 2:12• ¹²Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah. (1 Sam. 2:12)

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Prov. 1:30‑32• ³⁰they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
³¹therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
³²For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish. (Prov. 1:30‑32)

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Isa. 28:7• ⁷But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment. (Isa. 28:7)

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Isa. 56:10‑12• ¹⁰His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
¹¹and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them:
¹²Come, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. (Isa. 56:10‑12)

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Jer. 2:8• ⁸The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handled the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. (Jer. 2:8)

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Jer. 8:8‑9• ⁸How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it falsehood.
⁹The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected Jehovah's word; and what wisdom is in them? (Jer. 8:8‑9)

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Mal. 2:7‑8• ⁷For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and at his mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.
⁸But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 2:7‑8)

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Matt. 23:16‑26• ¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
¹⁷Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
¹⁸And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.
¹⁹Fools and blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
²⁰He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.
²¹And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.
²²And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.
²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.
²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.
²⁶Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean. (Matt. 23:16‑26)

I will also reject.

Zech. 11:8‑9,15‑17• ⁸And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexed with them, and their soul also loathed me.
⁹And I said, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which perisheth let it perish; and let them which are left eat every one the flesh of another.
¹⁵And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
¹⁶For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit those that are about to perish, neither shall seek that which is strayed away, nor heal that which is wounded, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hoofs in pieces.
¹⁷Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye utterly darkened. (Zech. 11:8‑9,15‑17)

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Mal. 2:1‑3,9• ¹And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.
²If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay it to heart.
³Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they shall take you away with it.
⁹And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in administering the law. (Mal. 2:1‑3,9)

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Matt. 21:41‑45• ⁴¹They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil men, and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
⁴²Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: this is of the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?
⁴³Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
⁴⁴And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
⁴⁵And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his parables, knew that he spoke about them. (Matt. 21:41‑45)

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Mark 12:8‑9• ⁸And they took him and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.
⁹What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. (Mark 12:8‑9)

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Luke 20:16‑18• ¹⁶He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!
¹⁷But he looking at them said, What then is this that is written, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone?
¹⁸Every one falling on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. (Luke 20:16‑18)

seeing.

Hos. 8:14• ¹⁴For 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. (Hos. 8:14)

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Hos. 13:6• ⁶According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me. (Hos. 13:6)

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2 Kings 17:16‑20• 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;
¹⁷and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁸Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only.
¹⁹Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.
²⁰And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel; and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. (2 Kings 17:16‑20)

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Psa. 119:61,139• ⁶¹The bands of the wicked have wrapped me round: I have not forgotten thy law.
¹³⁹My zeal destroyeth me, because mine oppressors have forgotten thy words. (Psa. 119:61,139)

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Isa. 17:10• ¹⁰For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips: (Isa. 17:10)

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Matt. 15:3‑6• ³But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?
⁴For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.
⁵But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:
⁶and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching. (Matt. 15:3‑6)

8 I will also.

Hos. 1:6• ⁶And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, so that I should pardon them. (Hos. 1:6)

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1 Sam. 2:28‑36• 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.
²⁹Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded in my habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.
³⁰Wherefore Jehovah the God of Israel saith, I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
³¹Behold, days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.
³²And thou shalt see an oppressor in my habitation, amidst all the good that shall be done to Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.
³³And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to cause thine eyes to fail and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house shall die in their vigour.
³⁴And this shall be the sign to thee, which shall come upon thy two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.
³⁵And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed continually.
³⁶And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of thy house shall come to crouch to him for a small piece of silver and for a cake of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread. (1 Sam. 2:28‑36)

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1 Sam. 3:12‑15• ¹²In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house; I will begin and make an end.
¹³For I have declared to him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he hath known: because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
¹⁴And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice or oblation for ever.
¹⁵And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Jehovah. And Samuel feared to declare the vision to Eli. (1 Sam. 3:12‑15)

• The true meaning seems to be Israel’s loss of their relative nearness to God as His people (Ex. 19)....Not individuals but “my people” are in question. (“Hosea 4” by W. Kelly)

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledgec; for thou hast rejected knowledgec, 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.

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* Lit. "the knowledge," see ver. 1.