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Amos Chapter 2

Amos
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Amos

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Amos confronts the Israelites, accusing them of celebrating religious festivals while the poor and widows suffer. He declares that God will punish them for their injustice and lack of compassion.

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(1) Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
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Amos 2:4Amos 2:6Amos 1:3Amos 1:6Amos 1:9Amos 1:11Amos 1:13Numbers 22:1Numbers 22:2Numbers 22:3Numbers 22:4Numbers 22:5

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Amos 1:6Amos 1:9Amos 1:11Jeremiah 8:1Judges 11:18Ezekiel 48:16

(2) But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
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Jeremiah 48:24Jeremiah 48:41Amos 1:14Isaiah 9:5Jeremiah 48:34

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Judges 11:18Isaiah 15:1Jeremiah 48:33Numbers 21:13Numbers 22:3Ruth 1:6

(3) And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
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Numbers 24:17Jeremiah 48:7Jeremiah 48:25

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I Samuel 2:25Psalms 68:27

(4) Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
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Deuteronomy 31:16Deuteronomy 31:17Deuteronomy 31:18Deuteronomy 32:15Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17Deuteronomy 32:18Deuteronomy 32:19Deuteronomy 32:20Deuteronomy 32:21Deuteronomy 32:22Deuteronomy 32:23

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Amos 1:11Ezekiel 48:16Amos 1:3Amos 1:6Amos 1:9Amos 1:13

(5) But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 17:27Jeremiah 21:10Jeremiah 37:8Jeremiah 37:9Jeremiah 37:10Jeremiah 39:8Jeremiah 52:13Hosea 8:14

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Hosea 8:14Amos 1:4Amos 1:7Amos 1:10Amos 1:12Amos 2:2

(6) Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
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Amos 6:3Amos 6:4Amos 6:5Amos 6:6Amos 6:7II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11II Kings 17:12II Kings 17:13

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Exodus 38:19Ezekiel 48:16Amos 1:3Amos 1:6Amos 1:9Amos 1:11

(7) That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
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Amos 4:1I Kings 21:4Proverbs 28:21Micah 2:2Micah 2:9Micah 7:2Micah 7:3Zephaniah 3:3Amos 5:12Isaiah 10:2Leviticus 18:8Leviticus 18:15

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II Samuel 2:21Ecclesiastes 3:20Ruth 4:1II Samuel 18:30Isaiah 10:2Ezekiel 33:11

(8) And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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Exodus 22:26Exodus 22:27Deuteronomy 24:12Deuteronomy 24:13Deuteronomy 24:14Deuteronomy 24:15Deuteronomy 24:16Deuteronomy 24:17Ezekiel 18:7Ezekiel 18:12Amos 6:4Isaiah 57:7

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Mark 2:22Genesis 19:33Genesis 19:35Matthew 9:17

(9) Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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Genesis 15:16Exodus 3:8Exodus 34:11Numbers 21:24Deuteronomy 2:24Deuteronomy 2:25Deuteronomy 2:26Deuteronomy 2:27Deuteronomy 2:28Deuteronomy 2:29Deuteronomy 2:30Deuteronomy 2:31

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Deuteronomy 28:51Isaiah 37:24Ezekiel 47:12Jude 1:12Daniel 4:20I Kings 7:16

(10) Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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Exodus 12:51Nehemiah 9:8Nehemiah 9:9Nehemiah 9:10Nehemiah 9:11Nehemiah 9:12Psalms 105:42Psalms 105:43Psalms 136:10Psalms 136:11Jeremiah 32:20Jeremiah 32:21

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Numbers 14:33Deuteronomy 8:2Deuteronomy 29:5Judges 11:24Obadiah 1:19

(11) And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
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I Samuel 3:20I Samuel 19:20I Kings 17:1I Kings 18:4I Kings 19:16I Kings 20:13I Kings 20:35I Kings 20:41I Kings 22:8II Kings 2:2II Kings 2:3II Kings 2:4

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Deuteronomy 22:6

(12) But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Mark 2:22Ezekiel 13:2Matthew 9:17Isaiah 30:10Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 14:15

(13) Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
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Psalms 78:40Isaiah 1:14Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 43:24Ezekiel 6:9Ezekiel 16:43Malachi 2:17

(14) Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
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Amos 9:1Amos 9:2Amos 9:3Job 11:20Ecclesiastes 9:11Isaiah 30:16Jeremiah 9:23

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Psalms 24:8Isaiah 28:2Amos 2:15Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(15) Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
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Psalms 33:16Psalms 33:17

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I Samuel 23:12I Samuel 28:19II Samuel 5:19I Chronicles 14:10II Chronicles 32:14II Chronicles 32:15

(16) And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 48:41Judges 4:17II Kings 7:8II Kings 7:9II Kings 7:10II Kings 7:11II Kings 7:12II Kings 7:13II Kings 7:14II Kings 7:15II Kings 7:16II Kings 7:17

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