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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
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Verse 6. Silent. Septuagint “like those who had,” and so forth—Knowledge. Jeroboam I. had appointed unlawful priests, and some of the house of Aaron went over to him, and were excluded from officiating at Jerusalem, after the captivity. 2 Kennicott. 12:31. Ezekiel 44:10. Knowledge is always expected of priests. Deuteronomy 17:8. Malachi 2:7. Gratian. dist. 38. c. omnes. Calmet.—When the power of sacrificing is withdrawn, all spiritual functions cease, as sacrifice belongs properly to a priest. Worthington.
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