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Amos Chapter 5

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Amos

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The chapter describes the people of Judah ignoring God's justice and favoring the rich over the poor. It condemns the king's vanity and the false worship of wealth, warning that God will judge those who turn away from His law.

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(1) Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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Amos 3:1Amos 4:1Amos 5:16Jeremiah 7:29Jeremiah 9:10Jeremiah 9:17Jeremiah 9:20Ezekiel 19:1Ezekiel 19:14Ezekiel 26:17Ezekiel 27:2Ezekiel 27:27

(2) The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
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Isaiah 37:22Jeremiah 14:17Jeremiah 18:13Jeremiah 31:4Lamentations 2:13II Kings 15:29II Kings 17:16Isaiah 3:8Hosea 14:1Isaiah 14:21Isaiah 24:20Isaiah 43:17

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Amos 9:11

(3) For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 4:27Deuteronomy 28:62Isaiah 1:9Isaiah 10:22Ezekiel 12:16Romans 9:27

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Genesis 44:22II Kings 13:7Mark 12:19

(4) For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
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Amos 5:6Deuteronomy 30:1Deuteronomy 30:2Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4Deuteronomy 30:5Deuteronomy 30:6Deuteronomy 30:7Deuteronomy 30:8I Chronicles 28:9II Chronicles 15:2II Chronicles 20:3

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Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Zephaniah 2:3

(5) But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
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Amos 4:4Hosea 4:15Hosea 9:15Hosea 10:14Hosea 10:15Hosea 12:11Amos 8:14Genesis 21:33Amos 7:17Leviticus 26:30Leviticus 26:31Leviticus 26:32

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Genesis 12:8Genesis 13:3Judges 21:19I Samuel 7:16I Kings 12:32I Kings 13:11

(6) Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
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Amos 5:4Ezekiel 33:11Exodus 22:6Amos 6:6Genesis 48:8Genesis 48:9Genesis 48:10Genesis 48:11Genesis 48:12Genesis 48:13Genesis 48:14Genesis 48:15

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Exodus 19:24Genesis 45:3Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Amos 5:5Jeremiah 51:22

(7) Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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Amos 5:11Amos 5:12Amos 6:12Deuteronomy 29:18Isaiah 1:23Isaiah 5:7Isaiah 10:1Isaiah 59:13Isaiah 59:14Hosea 10:4Habakkuk 1:12Habakkuk 1:13

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Psalms 99:4Jeremiah 33:15Ezekiel 3:20Romans 9:30Romans 10:3Isaiah 28:6

(8) Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
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Job 9:9Job 38:31Job 38:32Job 12:22Job 38:12Job 38:13Psalms 107:10Psalms 107:11Psalms 107:12Psalms 107:13Psalms 107:14Matthew 4:16

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Isaiah 24:1Isaiah 44:25I Samuel 2:7Job 41:31Proverbs 12:25Proverbs 13:7

(9) That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
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II Kings 13:17II Kings 13:25Jeremiah 37:10Hebrews 11:34

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Isaiah 33:1Jeremiah 4:20Hosea 10:14Zechariah 11:3Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(10) They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
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Amos 7:10Amos 7:11Amos 7:12Amos 7:13Amos 7:14Amos 7:15Amos 7:16Amos 7:17I Kings 18:17I Kings 21:20I Kings 22:8II Chronicles 24:20

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:27

(11) Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
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Amos 4:1Isaiah 5:7Isaiah 5:8Isaiah 59:13Isaiah 59:14Micah 2:2Micah 3:1Micah 3:2Micah 3:3James 2:6Revelation 11:8Revelation 11:9

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Nehemiah 13:15Zephaniah 1:13Mark 2:22Joshua 24:13Ecclesiastes 2:4Exodus 20:25

(12) For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
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Deuteronomy 31:21Isaiah 66:18Jeremiah 29:23Hebrews 4:12Hebrews 4:13II 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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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Leviticus 19:36Isaiah 29:21Ruth 4:1Ezekiel 40:23

(13) Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
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Amos 6:10Ecclesiastes 3:7Isaiah 36:21Hosea 4:4Micah 7:5Micah 7:6Micah 7:7Matthew 27:12Matthew 27:13Matthew 27:14Ecclesiastes 9:12Isaiah 37:3

(14) Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
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Psalms 34:12Psalms 34:13Psalms 34:14Psalms 34:15Psalms 34:16Proverbs 11:27Isaiah 1:16Isaiah 1:17Isaiah 55:2Micah 6:8Matthew 6:33Romans 2:7

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Jeremiah 38:17Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Zephaniah 2:3Zechariah 1:3

(15) Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
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Psalms 34:14Psalms 36:4Psalms 37:27Psalms 97:10Psalms 119:104Psalms 139:21Psalms 139:22Romans 7:15Romans 7:16Romans 7:22Romans 8:7Romans 12:9

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 48:32Luke 6:32

(16) Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
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Amos 5:27Amos 3:13Amos 8:10Isaiah 15:2Isaiah 15:3Isaiah 15:4Isaiah 15:5Isaiah 15:8Isaiah 22:12Jeremiah 4:31Jeremiah 9:10Jeremiah 9:18

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Revelation 18:19Revelation 18:10Revelation 18:16Isaiah 22:12Jeremiah 9:17Esther 4:3

(17) And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
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Isaiah 16:10Isaiah 32:10Isaiah 32:11Isaiah 32:12Jeremiah 48:33Hosea 9:1Hosea 9:2Exodus 12:12Exodus 12:23Joel 3:17Nahum 1:12Nahum 1:15

(18) Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
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Isaiah 5:19Isaiah 28:15Isaiah 28:16Isaiah 28:17Isaiah 28:18Isaiah 28:19Isaiah 28:20Isaiah 28:21Isaiah 28:22Jeremiah 17:15Ezekiel 12:22Ezekiel 12:27

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Isaiah 5:20Job 10:22Matthew 6:23John 12:35Isaiah 30:26Genesis 1:4

(19) As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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Amos 9:1Amos 9:2I Kings 20:29I Kings 20:30Job 20:24Job 20:25Isaiah 24:17Isaiah 24:18Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 15:3Jeremiah 48:43Jeremiah 48:44

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Numbers 21:9II Samuel 18:20I Kings 13:24II Chronicles 26:6

(20) Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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Job 3:4Job 3:5Job 3:6Job 10:21Job 10:22Isaiah 13:10Ezekiel 34:12Nahum 1:8Matthew 22:13Jude 1:13Revelation 16:10

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Job 10:22Isaiah 5:20Jeremiah 13:16Matthew 6:23John 12:35Isaiah 30:26

(21) I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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Proverbs 15:8Proverbs 21:27Proverbs 28:9Isaiah 1:11Isaiah 1:12Isaiah 1:13Isaiah 1:14Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 1:16Isaiah 66:3Jeremiah 6:20Jeremiah 7:21

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II Chronicles 8:13Deuteronomy 16:16Genesis 27:27

(22) Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
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Psalms 50:8Psalms 50:9Psalms 50:10Psalms 50:11Psalms 50:12Psalms 50:13Isaiah 66:3Micah 6:6Micah 6:7Amos 4:4Amos 4:5Leviticus 7:12

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17II Chronicles 29:35Deuteronomy 12:6

(23) Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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Amos 6:5Amos 8:3Amos 8:10

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II Kings 7:6Ezra 3:13Ezekiel 1:24Ezekiel 3:13

(24) But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
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Amos 5:7Amos 5:14Amos 5:15Job 29:12Job 29:13Job 29:14Job 29:15Job 29:16Job 29:17Proverbs 21:3Hosea 6:6Micah 6:8

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Isaiah 28:2Isaiah 28:17Ezekiel 47:4Leviticus 19:15

(25) Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
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Leviticus 17:7Deuteronomy 32:17Deuteronomy 32:18Deuteronomy 32:19Joshua 24:14Nehemiah 9:18Nehemiah 9:21Isaiah 43:23Isaiah 43:24Ezekiel 20:8Ezekiel 20:16Ezekiel 20:24

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I Kings 8:64I Chronicles 29:21II Chronicles 7:7Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 29:31Acts 7:42

(26) But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
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Leviticus 18:21Leviticus 20:2Leviticus 20:3Leviticus 20:4Leviticus 20:5I Kings 11:33II Kings 23:12II Kings 23:13

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Deuteronomy 31:14Isaiah 8:9II Chronicles 34:4Exodus 33:7Numbers 1:50Numbers 3:25

(27) Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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II Kings 15:29II Kings 17:6Acts 7:43Amos 4:13

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Ezekiel 16:53I Samuel 12:3Isaiah 18:7Philippians 3:19Zechariah 1:3

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