2Ch 15:3, Job 36:12, Pro 19:2, Isa 27:11, 45:20, Jer 5:3-4, 21, Hos 4:1, 6:6 | ESV | STEP | For a long time Israel was without the true God , and without a teaching priest and without law ,

2 Chronicles 15:3

3 ^aFor a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

Job 36:12

12 But if they do not listen, they ^bperish by the sword
and die ^cwithout knowledge.

Proverbs 19:2

2 Desire ^{▼▼Or A soul} without knowledge is not good,
and whoever ^emakes haste with his feet misses his way.

Isaiah 27:11

11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
^fFor this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 45:20

20 ^g“Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
^hThey have no knowledge
who ⁱcarry about their wooden idols,
^jand keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.

Jeremiah 5:3-4

3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
^kYou have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
^lThey have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.
4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
^mfor they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.

Jeremiah 5:21

21 “Hear this, ⁿO foolish and senseless people,
^owho have eyes, but see not,
who have ears, but hear not.

Hosea 4:1

The Lord Accuses Israel

1 ^pHear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for ^qthe Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and ^rno knowledge of God in the land;

Hosea 6:6

6 For ^sI desire steadfast love ^{▼▼Septuagint mercy} and not sacrifice,
^uthe knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.