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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hosea 4:6

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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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hosea 4:6. _MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE_] They have not the knowledge of God, nor of sacred things, nor of their own interest, nor of the danger to which they are exposed. They...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נִדְמ֥וּ עַמִּ֖י מִ בְּלִ֣י הַ דָּ֑עַת כִּֽי

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FIRST PART OF THE ACCUSATION...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DESTROYED: _ Heb._ cut off...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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