6My people are destroyed for 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: …
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos. 4:4) when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the people that love to have it so, Jer. 5:31. And it is observable here how the punishment answer…
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