Hosea 4:6

Hosea 4:6

4 “Now let no man contend, or rebuke another;
For your people are like those ^awho contend with the priest.

5 Therefore you shall stumble ^ain the day;
The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night;
And I will destroy your mother.

6 ^aMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
^bBecause you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

7 “The more they i¹ncreased,
The more they sinned against Me;
^aI will change² their glory into shame.

8 They eat up the sin of My people;
They set their¹ heart on their iniquity.

9 And¹ it shall be: ^alike people, like priest.
So I will punish them for their ways,
And reward them for their deeds.

10 For ^athey shall eat, but not have enough;
They shall commit harlotry, but not increase;
Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.

The Idolatry of Israel

11 “Harlotry, wine, and new wine ^aenslave the heart.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Destroyed - Many were already cut off by Pul king of Assyria, and many destroyed by the bloody tyranny of Menahem. Of knowledge - Of God, his law, his providence, his holy nature, his hatred of sin and power to punish it. Because thou - The prophet now turns from the people to the priests, to whom he speaks as to one person. Rejected knowledge - Art and wilt be ignorant. Seeing thou - O Israel, and you O priests, you have broken all the precepts of it. Thy children - The people of Israel, the whole kingdom of the ten tribes.

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