By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery they breach [Breach God’s hedge of protection – Job 1:9-10] and bloods in bloods they touch Therefore shall the [promised] land mourn and every one that dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heavens Yes the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away....
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge Because you have rejected knowledge I will also reject you....
Comments: Hosea 4:2-3 It’s not a difficult thing to know what behavior breaches God’s hedge of protection. He lists these things in verse three: swearing, lying, murdering, stealing, and committing adultery. Basically, the ten commandments. The children of Israel, en masse, were guilty of all of these things.
Hosea 4:6 This
verse is often quoted but rarely in whole. The part about rejecting knowledge
is usually left out. Yes, ignorance can and does destroy, but within the
context of judgement, as in Hosea 4:6, it is the rejection of God’s knowledge that can and does bring about both
national and personal calamity.
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