Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 4:6

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 4:6 - 4:6

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 4:6 - 4:6

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4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:15 - 4:15
4:16 - 4:16
4:17 - 4:17
4:18 - 4:18
4:19 - 4:19

lack of knowledge - “of God” (Hos 4:1), that is, lack of piety. Their ignorance was willful, as the epithet, “My people,” implies; they ought to have known, having the opportunity, as the people of God.

thou - O priest, so-called. Not regularly constituted, but still bearing the name, while confounding the worship of Jehovah and of the calves in Beth-el (1Ki 12:29, 1Ki 12:31).

I will ... forget thy children - Not only those who then were alive should be deprived of the priesthood, but their children who, in the ordinary course would have succeeded them, should be set aside.