Judgment on Israel's Neighbors
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The words of Amos, who was among the a shepherds of b Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel c in the days of d Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of e Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before f the earthquake.
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And he said:
g "The Lord roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
h the pastures of the shepherds mourn,
and the i top of j Carmel withers."
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Thus says the Lord:
k "For three transgressions of l Damascus,
and for four, l I will not revoke the punishment,
because they have threshed m Gilead
with threshing sledges of iron.
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n So I will send a fire upon the house of o Hazael,
and it shall devour the strongholds of o Ben-hadad.
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I will p break the gate-bar of l Damascus,
and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of q Aven,
and him who holds the scepter from r Beth-eden;
and the people of s Syria shall go into exile to t Kir,"
says the Lord.
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Thus says the Lord:
k "For three transgressions of u Gaza,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because v they carried into exile a whole people
to deliver them up to Edom.
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So I will send a fire upon the wall of u Gaza,
and it shall devour her strongholds.
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I will cut off the inhabitants from w Ashdod,
and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,"
says the Lord God.
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Thus says the Lord:
k "For three transgressions of x Tyre,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
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So I will send a fire upon the wall of x Tyre,
and it shall devour her strongholds."
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Thus says the Lord:
k "For three transgressions of y Edom,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
y because he pursued his brother with the sword
z and cast off all pity,
a and his anger tore perpetually,
a and he kept his wrath forever.
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So I will send a fire upon b Teman,
and it shall devour the strongholds of c Bozrah."
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Thus says the Lord:
k "For three transgressions of the d Ammonites,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because e they have ripped open pregnant women in f Gilead,
that they might enlarge their border.
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So I will kindle a fire in the wall of g Rabbah,
h and it shall devour her strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
h with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
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and i their king shall go into exile,
he and his princes together,"
says the Lord.
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Thus says the Lord:
k "For three transgressions of j Moab,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because k he burned to lime
the bones of the king of Edom.
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So I will send a fire upon Moab,
and it shall devour the strongholds of l Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
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m I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
and will kill m all its princes with him,"
says the Lord.
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Cross References
Amos 7:14 - 15
Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.
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2 Samuel 14:2
And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.
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Hosea 1:1
The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
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2 Kings 15:1
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
2 Kings 15:13
Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria.
2 Kings 15:30
Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2 Chronicles 26:1
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
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Amos 7:10
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
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Zechariah 14:5
And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
Isaiah 29:6
You will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
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Joel 3:16
The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
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Psalms 65:12
The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy.
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Amos 9:3
If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
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Joshua 19:26
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath.
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Amos 1:9
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
Amos 1:13
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
Amos 2:1
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
Amos 2:4
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
Amos 2:6
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
Proverbs 30:15
The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Thr...
Proverbs 30:18
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I d...
Proverbs 30:21
Under three things the earth trembles; under fo...
Proverbs 30:29
Three things are stately in their tread; four a...
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Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.
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Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.
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Amos 1:13
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
2 Kings 10:33
From the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.
Isaiah 21:10
O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.
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Jeremiah 49:27
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.
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2 Kings 13:24 - 25
When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
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2 Kings 13:24 - 25
When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
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Jeremiah 51:30
The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the Lord lives.
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2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
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Amos 9:7
Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the Lord. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
2 Kings 16:9
And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
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Amos 9:7
Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the Lord. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
2 Kings 16:9
And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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Jeremiah 47:1
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.
Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?
Zephaniah 2:4
For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
Zechariah 9:5
Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited.
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2 Chronicles 28:18
And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.
Joel 3:4 - 6
What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
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Amos 1:6
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.
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Amos 3:9
Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst.
1 Samuel 5:1
When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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Joel 3:4
What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
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Amos 1:9
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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2 Chronicles 28:17
For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.
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2 Chronicles 28:17
For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.
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Psalms 137:7
Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Malachi 1:4
If Edom says, "We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins," the Lord of hosts says, "They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called 'the wicked country,' and 'the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.'
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Ezekiel 35:5
Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.
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Ezekiel 35:5
Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.
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Obadiah 1:9
And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
1 Chronicles 1:45
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
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Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.
1 Chronicles 1:44
Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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Jeremiah 49:1 - 2
Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord : "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?
Zephaniah 2:8 - 9
I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
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Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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2 Samuel 11:1
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
Ezekiel 21:20
Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.
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Ezekiel 21:28 - 29
And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning -
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Ezekiel 21:28 - 29
And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning -
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Jeremiah 49:3
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials.
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Amos 1:3
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
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Zephaniah 2:8 - 9
I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
Isaiah 15:1
An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.
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2 Kings 3:27
Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.
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Jeremiah 48:24
And Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
Jeremiah 48:41
The cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains.
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Jeremiah 48:7
For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.
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Jeremiah 48:7
For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.
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