Israel’s Knowledge of God in Hosea
Hosea 2:8: “For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.”
Hosea 2:13: “And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.”
Hosea 2:20: “I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.”
Hosea 4:1: “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.”
Hosea 4:6: “My 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.”
Hosea 4:11: “Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.”
Hosea 4:14: “I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.”
Hosea 5:4: “They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.”
Hosea 5:15: “I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.”
Hosea 6:3: “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”
Hosea 6:6: “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”
Hosea 7:2: “And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.”
Hosea 7:9: “Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.”
Hosea 7:11: “Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.”
Hosea 8:2: “Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.”
Hosea 8:14: “For 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.”
Hosea 9:7: “The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.”
Hosea 11:3: “I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.”
Hosea 13:4: “Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.”
Hosea 13:6: “According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.”
Hosea 14:9: “Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.”