Verse 14

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for [the men] themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
  • Hos 4:5-6 : 5 And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother. 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 also will forget thy children.
  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [Even] because ye cannot hear my word.
  • Rom 3:11 : 11 There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 16 Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
  • Heb 12:8 : 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
  • Deut 23:17 : 17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:12 : 12 And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7 : 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
  • Prov 28:5 : 5 Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek Jehovah understand all things.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19 And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand.