Amos 4
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.
ye kine. By the kine of Bashan, some understand the proud, luxurious matrons of Israel; but it is probable the prophet speaks catachrestically, and means the wealthy, effeminate, and profligate rulers and nobles of Samaria.
Deuteronomy 32:14,15 Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of …
Psalm 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
Jeremiah 50:11,27 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of …
Ezekiel 39:18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the …
the mountains.
Amos 6:1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of …
1 Kings 16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, …
which oppress.
Amos 2:6,7 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, …
Amos 3:9,10 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land …
Amos 5:11 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take …
Amos 8:4-6 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor …
Exodus 22:21-25 You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers …
Deuteronomy 15:9-11 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, …
Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now …
Psalm 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and …
Proverbs 22:22,23 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted …
Proverbs 23:10,11 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless…
Ecclesiastes 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Isaiah 1:17-24 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the …
Isaiah 5:8 Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till …
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, …
Jeremiah 5:26-29 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that …
Jeremiah 6:6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast …
Jeremiah 7:6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and …
Ezekiel 22:7,12,27,29 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of …
Micah 2:1-3 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
Micah 3:1-3 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of …
Zechariah 7:10,11 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor…
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
James 5:1-6 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
crush.
Deuteronomy 28:33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which …
Job 20:19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has …
Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed …
Bring.
Amos 2:8 And they lay themselves down on clothes laid to pledge by every altar…
Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an …
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.
hath sworn.
Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, said the LORD the God of hosts, …
See on
Psalm 89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.
he will.
Isaiah 37:29 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my …
Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, said the LORD, and they shall …
Ezekiel 39:4,5 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, …
Habakkuk 1:15,16 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their …
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.
ye shall go.
2 Kings 25:4 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night …
Ezekiel 12:5,12 Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby…
them into the palace. or, away the things of the palace.
2 Kings 7:7,8,15 Why they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and …
Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of …
Isaiah 31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and …
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them …
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and …
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
Come. A bitter irony and sarcasm, addressed to the idolatrous Israelites.
Amos 3:14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel on …
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord GOD; Go you, serve …
Joel 3:9-12 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty …
Matthew 23:32 Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 26:45 Then comes he to his disciples, and said to them, Sleep on now, and …
Mark 14:41 And he comes the third time, and said to them, Sleep on now, and …
at Gilgal
Amos 5:5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: …
Hosea 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and …
Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the …
Hosea 12:11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice …
and bring.
Numbers 28:3,4 And you shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which …
and your.
Deuteronomy 14:28,29 At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of …
Deuteronomy 26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase …
three years. Heb. three years of days.
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.
offer a sacrifice. Heb. offer by burning.
Leviticus 7:12,13 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice …
Leviticus 23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth …
proclaim.
Leviticus 22:18-21 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, …
Deuteronomy 12:6,7 And thither you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, …
Matthew 6:2 Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, …
for.
Psalm 81:12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their …
Matthew 15:9,13,14 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments …
Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe …
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all delusion of unrighteousness in them that perish; because …
this liketh you. Heb. so ye love.
Hosea 9:1,10 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone …
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.
cleanness. From want of food, occasioned by severe famine.
and want.
Leviticus 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake …
Deuteronomy 28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but …
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said …
1 Kings 18:2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
2 Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; …
2 Kings 6:25-29 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged …
2 Kings 8:1 Then spoke Elisha to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, …
Ezekiel 16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have …
yet. See on ver.
Amos 4:8,9 So two or three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but …
2 Chronicles 28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against …
Isaiah 9:13 For the people turns not to him that smites them, neither do they …
Isaiah 26:11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall …
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but …
Jeremiah 8:5-7 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? …
Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, …
Hosea 6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will …
Hosea 7:14-16 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled …
Joel 2:12-14 Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your …
Haggai 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the …
Zechariah 1:3-6 Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you …
Revelation 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Revelation 9:20,21 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet …
Revelation 16:10,11 And the fifth angel poured out his vial on the seat of the beast; …
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.
I have.
Leviticus 26:18-21,23,24,27,28 And if you will not yet for all this listen to me, then I will punish …
Deuteronomy 28:23,24 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth …
1 Kings 8:35,36 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned …
2 Chronicles 7:13,14 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts …
Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there …
Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter …
Jeremiah 5:24,25 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, …
Jeremiah 14:4,22 Because the ground is beat down, for there was no rain in the earth, …
Haggai 1:10,11 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is …
Zechariah 14:17 And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families …
James 5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed …
Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of …
when.
Joel 2:23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your …
John 4:35 Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, …
and I.
Exodus 8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people …
Exodus 9:4,26 And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt…
Exodus 10:23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three …
Judges 6:37-40 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew …
1 Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that …
and the. See on
Joel 1:10-18 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the …
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.
two.
1 Kings 18:5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all fountains of water, …
Isaiah 41:17,18 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their …
Jeremiah 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they …
but.
Ezekiel 4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff …
Micah 6:14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall …
Haggai 1:6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not …
yet. See on ver.
Amos 4:6,9-11 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, …
Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: …
Hosea 7:10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: and they do not return …
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.
with.
Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD shall smite you with a consumption, and with a fever, and …
1 Kings 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, …
2 Chronicles 6:28 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there …
Haggai 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the …
when, etc. or, the multitude of your gardens, etc., did the palmer worm, etc. the palmer-worm.
Amos 7:1,2 Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers …
Deuteronomy 28:42 All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.
Joel 1:4 That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that …
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the …
yet.
Amos 4:6,8 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, …
Job 36:8-13 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction…
Isaiah 1:5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: …
Isaiah 42:24,25 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the …
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but …
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.
pestilence.
Exodus 9:3-6 Behold, the hand of the LORD is on your cattle which is in the field, …
Exodus 12:29,30 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn …
Exodus 15:26 And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD …
Leviticus 26:16,25 I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, …
Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put none …
Deuteronomy 28:22,27,60 The LORD shall smite you with a consumption, and with a fever, and …
Psalm 78:49,50 He cast on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, …
after the manner. or, in the way. your young.
Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword on you, that shall avenge the quarrel of …
2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? And he answered, Because I know …
2 Kings 10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote …
Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding …
Jeremiah 11:22 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: …
Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their …
Jeremiah 48:15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young …
and have taken away your horses. Heb. with the captivity of your horses.
2 Kings 13:3,7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered …
the stink.
Amos 8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the …
Deuteronomy 28:26 And your carcass shall be meat to all fowls of the air, and to the …
Jeremiah 8:1,2 At that time, said the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the …
Jeremiah 9:22 Speak, Thus said the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as …
Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, said the LORD: the sword …
Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither …
Joel 2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive …
yet.
Amos 4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, …
Exodus 8:19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and …
Exodus 9:12,17,34,35 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he listened not to …
Exodus 10:3,27 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said …
Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; …
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.
as God.
Genesis 19:24,25 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire …
Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, …
Jeremiah 49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities …
Hosea 11:8 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? …
2 Peter 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned …
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, …
as a.
Zechariah 3:2 And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the …
1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself …
Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even …
yet. See on ver.
Amos 4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, …
Jeremiah 6:28-30 They are all grievous rebels, walking with slanders: they are brass …
Ezekiel 22:17-22 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying…
Ezekiel 24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you …
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet …
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
thus.
Amos 4:2,3 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, see, the days shall …
Amos 2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong …
Amos 9:1-4 I saw the LORD standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel …
prepare.
Amos 5:4-15 For thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you …
Isaiah 47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: …
Ezekiel 13:5 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for …
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, …
Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will …
Matthew 5:25 Agree with your adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with …
Matthew 24:44-51 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not …
Matthew 25:1-13 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which …
Mark 13:32-37 But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which …
Luke 14:31,32 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first…
Luke 21:3-36 And he said, Of a truth I say to you, that this poor widow has cast …
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …
James 4:1-10 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …
Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …
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.
he that. This is a most powerful description of the majesty of Jehovah, the God of hosts.
Job 38:4-11 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, …
Psalm 65:6 Which by his strength sets fast the mountains; being girded with power:
Isaiah 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted …
Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, said the LORD, which …
and createth.
Psalm 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes …
Psalm 147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, …
Jeremiah 10:13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, …
Jeremiah 51:16 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; …
wind. or, spirit.
John 3:8 The wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound thereof, but …
and declareth.
Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.
Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets, and makes known …
Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think you evil in your hearts?
Luke 7:39,40 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke within …
John 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
that maketh.
Amos 5:8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow …
Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I …
Exodus 10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a …
Exodus 14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; …
Isaiah 5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of …
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before …
and treadeth.
Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat …
Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like to you, O people saved by the …
Micah 1:3 For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come …
Habakkuk 3:19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' …
The Lord.
Amos 3:13 Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, said the Lord GOD, the …
Amos 5:8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow …
Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, said the LORD the God of hosts, …
Amos 9:6 It is he that builds his stories in the heaven, and has founded his …
Isaiah 47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on …
Jeremiah 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all …
Jeremiah 51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all …
