Isaiah 28:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.

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  • Ps 131:2 : 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.
  • Jer 6:10 : 10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 ¶ At that time Jesus answered and said, ‹I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.›
  • Matt 21:15-16 : 15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, 16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, ‹Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?›
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 ‹Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.›
  • John 3:19 : 19 ‹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.›
  • John 12:38 : 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 ‹And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.› 48 ‹He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.›
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.
  • Isa 30:10-12 : 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
  • Isa 30:20 : 20 And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go.
  • Isa 50:4 : 4 ¶ The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 ¶ Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
  • Isa 54:13 : 13 And all thy children [shall be] taught of the LORD; and great [shall be] the peace of thy children.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

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  • Isa 28:10-13
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    10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:

    11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

    12 To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

    13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

  • Heb 5:11-14
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    11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

    12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

    13 For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

    14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

  • Isa 40:13-14
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    13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counsellor hath taught him?

    14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

  • 1 Cor 3:1-2
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    1 ¶ And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.

    2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

  • 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.

  • 8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].

  • 9 They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

  • 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

  • 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

  • Isa 29:11-13
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    11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:

    12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

    13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

  • Isa 7:15-16
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    15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

    16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

  • 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

  • 9 Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.

  • 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.

  • 11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

  • 10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, [shall not he know]?

  • 10 Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

  • 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

  • 27 ¶ Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.

  • 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • 1 ¶ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.

  • 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them];

  • 6 ¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • 12 ¶ Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

  • 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

  • 24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

  • 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.

  • 22 Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

  • 15 ¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.

  • 2 ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

  • 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.

  • 22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.

  • 9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

  • 14 That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

  • 18 [There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up.

  • 9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

  • 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?

  • 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)