The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night;
And I will destroy your mother.
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.
So I will punish them for their ways,
And reward them for their deeds.
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Hosea 4:7.
Hosea 4:7
The word forgotten here according to the Brown-Driver-Briggs definition can also mean to forget, but it can also mean to ignore; wither; or cease to care. So if we look down in verse 7,
You see, they ceased to care or to be careful about keeping God's law when they became a powerful and wealthy nation. And then He says,
Now, they could have been a glorious nation, a glorious nation of people of priests. But their sins gradually caused them to drift away. And what did God do? Now we are going to find out right here in a minute. He actually sent them into captivity and their children lost their identity as God's people. He said, "I'll forget your children." They do not even know who God is, who the true God is. Most people that are descendants of Israel, because they went into captivity and we call the lost 10 tribes of Israel, but even though we may know where they migrated, they still do not know who they are. That actually the God of Israel was their God and that they were supposed to be a glorious priestly nation.
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