Amos 2

King James Version · 16 verses · 418 cross-references linking it to 215 other chapters

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1Thus 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:32 cross-references: Zephaniah 2:8–9, Ezekiel 25:8–9, Isaiah 15:1–9, Jeremiah 48:1–47, Amos 2:4
2But 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:16 cross-references: Jeremiah 48:24, Jeremiah 48:41, Amos 1:14, Jeremiah 48:34, Isaiah 9:5
3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.7 cross-references: Jeremiah 48:7, Numbers 24:17, Isaiah 40:23, Jeremiah 48:25, Psalms 2:10
4Thus 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:62 cross-references: Ezekiel 20:24, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:16, Habakkuk 2:18, Isaiah 28:15
5But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.21 cross-references: Jeremiah 17:27, Hosea 8:14, Jeremiah 21:10, Jeremiah 39:8, Jeremiah 37:8–10
6Thus 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;39 cross-references: Joel 3:3, Micah 3:2–3, Amos 5:11–12, Micah 6:10–16, 2 Kings 18:12
7That 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:34 cross-references: Amos 5:12, Ezekiel 22:11, Isaiah 10:2, Micah 2:9, Micah 2:2
8And 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.27 cross-references: Deuteronomy 24:12–17, Exodus 22:26–27, Amos 6:6, 1 Corinthians 10:7, Hosea 4:8
9Yet 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.40 cross-references: Malachi 4:1, Job 18:16, Deuteronomy 3:11, Deuteronomy 2:24–33, Exodus 34:11
10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.29 cross-references: Deuteronomy 2:7, Exodus 12:51, Amos 3:1, Micah 6:4, Acts 13:18
11And 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.39 cross-references: Jeremiah 7:25, Numbers 6:2–3, 1 Kings 20:35, 2 Kings 17:13, 1 Kings 17:1
12But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.16 cross-references: Isaiah 30:10, Amos 7:13, Micah 2:6, Jeremiah 11:21, Amos 7:16
13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.14 cross-references: Isaiah 1:14, Malachi 2:17, Isaiah 7:13, Psalms 78:40, Ezekiel 16:43
14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:36 cross-references: Jeremiah 9:23, Amos 9:1–3, Psalms 33:16, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Job 11:20
15Neither 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.3 cross-references: Psalms 33:16–17, Ezekiel 39:3
16And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.7 cross-references: Mark 14:52, Judges 4:17, 2 Kings 7:8–20, Jeremiah 48:41

Chapters most linked to Amos 2

People in Amos 2

God, Moab, Amorite, Esau, Jacob

Places in Amos 2

Moab, Edom, Kerioth, Jerusalem, Egypt

Archaeology

Yavne-Yam ostracon late 7th century BC