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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Hosea 4:6
6 My people are destroyedc 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.