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Amos Chapter 4

Amos
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Amos

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Amos confronts the people of Israel and Judah with a harsh judgment, accusing them of injustice and oppression by the wealthy. He calls for repentance, warning that God will punish them for their wickedness and that their sins will be brought upon them. The chapter stresses that God is a just judge who will not ignore the cries of the oppressed.

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(1) Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
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Deuteronomy 32:14Deuteronomy 32:15Psalms 22:12Jeremiah 50:11Jeremiah 50:27Ezekiel 39:18Amos 6:1I Kings 16:24Amos 2:6Amos 2:7Amos 3:9Amos 3:10

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Deuteronomy 15:11Deuteronomy 24:14Psalms 35:10Psalms 72:13Proverbs 22:22Joshua 13:30

(2) The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
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Amos 6:8Psalms 89:35Isaiah 37:29Jeremiah 16:16Ezekiel 39:4Ezekiel 39:5Habakkuk 1:15Habakkuk 1:16

(3) And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
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II Kings 25:4Ezekiel 12:5Ezekiel 12:12II Kings 7:7II Kings 7:8II Kings 7:15Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 31:7Zephaniah 1:18Matthew 16:26

(4) Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
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Amos 3:14Ecclesiastes 11:9Ezekiel 20:39Joel 3:9Joel 3:10Joel 3:11Joel 3:12Matthew 23:32Matthew 26:45Mark 14:41Mark 5:5Hosea 4:15

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Amos 5:5I Samuel 11:15

(5) And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
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Leviticus 7:12Leviticus 7:13Leviticus 23:17Leviticus 22:18Leviticus 22:19Leviticus 22:20Leviticus 22:21Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 12:7Matthew 6:2Psalms 81:12Matthew 15:9

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39Leviticus 7:12Leviticus 7:13Leviticus 7:29Leviticus 19:5

(6) And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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Leviticus 26:26Deuteronomy 28:38I Kings 17:1I Kings 18:2II Kings 4:38II Kings 6:25II Kings 6:26II Kings 6:27II Kings 6:28II Kings 6:29II Kings 8:1Ezekiel 16:27

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I Kings 13:33Joel 1:6

(7) And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
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Leviticus 26:18Leviticus 26:19Leviticus 26:20Leviticus 26:21Leviticus 26:23Leviticus 26:24Leviticus 26:27Leviticus 26:28Deuteronomy 28:23Deuteronomy 28:24I Kings 8:35I Kings 8:36

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Joel 2:23Deuteronomy 11:14Zechariah 10:1Deuteronomy 32:2Job 29:23Job 37:6

(8) So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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I Kings 18:5Isaiah 41:17Isaiah 41:18Jeremiah 14:3Ezekiel 4:16Micah 6:14Haggai 1:6Amos 4:6Amos 4:9Amos 4:10Amos 4:11Jeremiah 23:14

(9) I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 28:22I Kings 8:37II Chronicles 6:28Haggai 2:17Amos 7:1Amos 7:2Deuteronomy 28:42Joel 1:4Joel 2:25Amos 4:6Amos 4:8Job 36:8

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Leviticus 23:40II Chronicles 2:8Numbers 24:6I Kings 6:32I Chronicles 27:28Psalms 105:33

(10) I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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Exodus 9:3Exodus 9:4Exodus 9:5Exodus 9:6Exodus 12:29Exodus 12:30Exodus 15:26Leviticus 26:16Leviticus 26:25Deuteronomy 7:15Deuteronomy 28:22Deuteronomy 28:27

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Lamentations 2:21Ezekiel 32:25Deuteronomy 22:6

(11) I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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Genesis 19:24Genesis 19:25Isaiah 13:19Jeremiah 49:18Hosea 11:8II Peter 2:6Jude 1:7Zechariah 3:2I Corinthians 3:15Jude 1:23Amos 4:6Jeremiah 6:28

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Deuteronomy 29:23II Samuel 17:9Ephesians 4:11Isaiah 13:19Jeremiah 50:40Matthew 13:8

(12) Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
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Amos 4:2Amos 4:3Amos 2:14Amos 9:1Amos 9:2Amos 9:3Amos 9:4Amos 5:4Amos 5:5Amos 5:6Amos 5:7Amos 5:8

(13) For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
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Job 38:4Job 38:5Job 38:6Job 38:7Job 38:8Job 38:9Job 38:10Job 38:11Psalms 65:6Isaiah 40:12Zechariah 12:1Psalms 135:7

Related verses (shared words)

Joel 2:2I Kings 19:11Job 10:22Jeremiah 13:16Matthew 6:23I John 2:11

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