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Amos Chapter 7

Amos
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Amos

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In Amos 7 the prophet condemns the rich in Israel and Judah for hoarding grain while their people starve, urging them to share with the poor. He also warns that the nations will be judged and that the famine will be a sign of God’s anger.

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(1) Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
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Amos 7:4Amos 7:7Amos 8:1Jeremiah 1:11Jeremiah 1:12Jeremiah 1:13Jeremiah 1:14Jeremiah 1:15Jeremiah 1:16Jeremiah 24:1Ezekiel 11:25Zechariah 1:20

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Ruth 3:10Esther 8:8Deuteronomy 24:3Job 8:7Job 42:12II Peter 2:20

(2) And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
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Exodus 10:15Revelation 9:4Amos 7:5Exodus 32:11Exodus 32:12Exodus 34:9Numbers 14:17Numbers 14:18Numbers 14:19Jeremiah 14:7Jeremiah 14:20Jeremiah 14:21

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II Kings 19:26Isaiah 37:27I Peter 1:24Amos 7:5

(3) The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
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Amos 7:6Deuteronomy 32:36I Chronicles 21:15Psalms 106:45Hosea 11:8Joel 2:14Jonah 3:10James 5:16

(4) Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
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Amos 7:1Amos 7:7Revelation 4:1Amos 1:4Amos 1:7Amos 4:11Amos 5:6Exodus 9:23Exodus 9:24Leviticus 10:2Numbers 16:35Isaiah 27:4

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Revelation 8:12Ruth 3:13I Samuel 30:24II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:12

(5) Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
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Amos 7:2Psalms 85:4Isaiah 10:25Amos 7:3Isaiah 1:9Jeremiah 30:19

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Amos 7:2

(6) The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
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Judges 2:18Judges 10:16Psalms 90:13Psalms 135:14Jeremiah 26:19Jonah 4:2

(7) Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
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II Samuel 8:2II Kings 21:13Isaiah 28:17Isaiah 34:11Lamentations 2:8Ezekiel 40:3Zechariah 2:1Zechariah 2:2Revelation 11:1Revelation 21:15

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Amos 7:8II Chronicles 26:6

(8) And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
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Jeremiah 1:11Jeremiah 1:12Jeremiah 1:13Zechariah 5:2Lamentations 2:8Amos 8:2Jeremiah 15:6Ezekiel 7:2Ezekiel 7:3Ezekiel 7:4Ezekiel 7:5Ezekiel 7:6

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Amos 7:7

(9) And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
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Amos 3:14Amos 5:5Amos 8:14Genesis 26:23Genesis 26:24Genesis 26:25Genesis 46:1Leviticus 26:30Leviticus 26:31II Kings 15:8II Kings 15:9II Kings 15:10

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Ezekiel 6:6Ezekiel 29:12Isaiah 15:1Ezekiel 19:7Genesis 22:9Jeremiah 4:7

(10) Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
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I Kings 12:31I Kings 12:32I Kings 13:33II Kings 14:23II Kings 14:24II Chronicles 13:8II Chronicles 13:9Jeremiah 20:1Jeremiah 20:2Jeremiah 20:3Jeremiah 29:26Jeremiah 29:27

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II Samuel 18:20I Corinthians 3:2I Corinthians 10:13I Kings 12:32I Kings 14:10

(11) For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
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Jeremiah 26:9Jeremiah 28:10Jeremiah 28:11Acts 6:14Amos 7:9Psalms 56:5Matthew 26:61Amos 6:7Amos 6:8II Kings 17:6

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Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Jeremiah 44:25Ezekiel 3:18Ezekiel 33:8II Kings 7:4

(12) Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
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I Samuel 9:9II Chronicles 16:10Isaiah 30:10Amos 2:12Matthew 8:34Luke 8:37Luke 8:38Luke 13:31Acts 16:39I Samuel 2:36Isaiah 56:11Ezekiel 13:19

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Ezekiel 13:2Micah 2:6

(13) But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
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Amos 2:12Acts 4:17Acts 4:18Acts 5:28Acts 5:40I Kings 12:29I Kings 12:32I Kings 13:1

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Esther 8:8Esther 3:3Esther 3:12Esther 4:11Esther 5:1I Kings 1:9

(14) Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
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I Kings 20:35II Kings 2:3II Kings 2:5II Kings 2:7II Kings 4:38II Kings 6:1II Chronicles 16:7II Chronicles 19:2II Chronicles 20:34Amos 1:1Zechariah 13:5I Corinthians 1:27

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Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Ezekiel 47:12Matthew 12:33John 15:2

(15) And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
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II Samuel 7:8Psalms 78:70Psalms 78:71Psalms 78:72Matthew 4:18Matthew 4:19Matthew 9:9Jeremiah 1:7Ezekiel 2:3Ezekiel 2:4Luke 24:46Luke 24:47

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Ezekiel 34:8Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7Ezekiel 13:2Micah 2:6

(16) Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
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I Samuel 15:16I Kings 22:19Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 28:16Jeremiah 28:17Amos 7:13Isaiah 30:10Micah 2:6Deuteronomy 32:2Ezekiel 20:46Ezekiel 21:2

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Ezekiel 13:2Micah 2:6

(17) Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
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Isaiah 13:16Jeremiah 20:6Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 28:16Jeremiah 29:21Jeremiah 29:25Jeremiah 29:31Jeremiah 29:32Lamentations 5:11Hosea 4:13Hosea 4:14Zechariah 14:2

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Ezekiel 16:53Isaiah 28:13II Kings 7:4Isaiah 28:10Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18

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