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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 gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge; and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude [are] parched with thirst. (Isa. 5:13)

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My people.

Hos. 4:12• ¹²My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone lewdly 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 doth not consider. (Isa. 1:3)

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

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Isa. 5:13• ¹³Therefore my people are gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge; and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude [are] parched with thirst. (Isa. 5:13)

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Jer. 4:22• ²²{i}For 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.{/i} (Jer. 4:22)

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Jer. 8:7• ⁷Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow 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• ¹{i}Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel;{/i} for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. (Hos. 4:1)

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Hos. 6:6• ⁶For I desired mercy, 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 season Israel hath been 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 hear not, their soul passes by the dart,{HR}And expireth in want of knowledge; (Job 36:12)

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Prov. 19:2• ²Also a soul (person) without knowledge [is] not good;{HR}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 come [and] set them on fire. For it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour. (Isa. 27:11)

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Isa. 45:20• ²⁰Assemble 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• ³{i}Jehovah, 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.{/i}
⁴{i}And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God{/i}.
²¹{i}Hear now this, O foolish and heartless people, who have eyes and see not; who have ears, and hear not.{/i} (Jer. 5:3‑4,21)

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

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2 Cor. 4:3‑6• ³But if even our gospel is veiled, in those that perish it is veiled,
⁴in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth.
⁵For not ourselves do we preach, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake,
⁶because it is the God that bade light shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts for the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 4:3‑6)

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

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Prov. 1:30‑32• ³⁰They would none of my counsel,{HR}They despised all my reproof;
³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way,{HR}And be filled with their own devices.
³²For the turning back of the simple shall slay them,{HR}And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. (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 swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment. (Isa. 28:7)

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Isa. 56:10‑12• ¹⁰His watchmen [are] blind, they are all without knowledge; they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
¹¹Yea, the dogs [are] greedy, they can never have enough; and these [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
¹²Come ye, [say they,] I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure. (Isa. 56:10‑12)

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Jer. 2:8• ⁸{i}The 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.{/i} (Jer. 2:8)

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Jer. 8:8‑9• ⁸{i}How 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.{/i}
⁹{i}The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected Jehovah's word; and what wisdom is in them?{/i} (Jer. 8:8‑9)

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Mal. 2:7‑8• ⁷For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: 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• ¹⁶{i}Woe 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.{/i}
¹⁷{i}Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?{/i}
¹⁸{i}And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.{/i}
¹⁹{i}[Fools and] blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?{/i}
²⁰{i}He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.{/i}
²¹{i}And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.{/i}
²²{i}And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.{/i}
²³{i}Woe 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.{/i}
²⁴{i}Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.{/i}
²⁵{i}Woe 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.{/i}
²⁶{i}Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.{/i} (Matt. 23:16‑26)

I will also reject.

Zech. 11:8‑9,15‑17• ⁸Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
⁹Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
¹⁵And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
¹⁶For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still. shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
¹⁷Woe to the idol 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 shall be utterly darkened. (Zech. 11:8‑9,15‑17)

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Mal. 2:1‑3,9• ¹And now, O ye priests, {i}this commandment is for you.{/i}
²{i}If 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{/i} lay it to heart.
³Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
⁹Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. (Mal. 2:1‑3,9)

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Matt. 21:41‑45• ⁴¹They say to him, He will wretchedly destroy those wretches, and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen who shall render him the fruits in their season.
⁴²{i}Jesus says to them,{/i} Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, this was made the corner-stone: of Jehovah this is, and it is marvellous in our eyes.
⁴³Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it.
⁴⁴And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.
⁴⁵{i}And the chief priests and the Pharisees, having heard his parables, knew that he spoke about them.{/i} (Matt. 21:41‑45)

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Mark 12:8‑9• ⁸And they took him and killed him, and cast him 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 crush 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• ⁶{i}According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.{/i} (Hos. 13:6)

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2 Kings 17:16‑20• ¹⁶{i}And 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;{/i}
¹⁷{i}and 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.{/i}
¹⁸{i}Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only.{/i}
¹⁹{i}Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.{/i}
²⁰{i}And 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.{/i} (2 Kings 17:16‑20)

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Psa. 119:61,139• ⁶¹Cords of wicked [men] surrounded me:{HR}Thy law I have not forgotten.
¹³⁹My zeal destroyeth me,{HR}Because my adversaries 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• ³{i}But he answering said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?{/i}
⁴{i}For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.{/i}
⁵{i}But 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:{/i}
⁶{i}and 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.{/i} (Matt. 15:3‑6)

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

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1 Sam. 2:28‑36• ²⁸And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
²⁹{i}Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded in my habitation? And{/i} thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people.
³⁰Wherefore the Lord Jehovah of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever: 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, the 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 thine house.
³²And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house forever.
³³And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
³⁴And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
³⁵And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind; {i}and{/i} I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed forever.
³⁶{i}And 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.{/i} (1 Sam. 2:28‑36)

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

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.

W. Kelly Translation

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