Amos 3:9
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9 Announce this to the leaders of Philistia[a]
and to the great ones of Egypt:
“Take your seats now on the hills around Samaria,
and witness the chaos and oppression in Israel.”
Footnotes
- 3:9 Hebrew Ashdod.
Amos 4:1
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Israel’s Failure to Learn
4 Listen to me, you fat cows[a]
living in Samaria,
you women who oppress the poor
and crush the needy,
and who are always calling to your husbands,
“Bring us another drink!”
Footnotes
- 4:1 Hebrew you cows of Bashan.
Amos 6:1
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6 What sorrow awaits you who lounge in luxury in Jerusalem,[a]
and you who feel secure in Samaria!
You are famous and popular in Israel,
and people go to you for help.
Footnotes
- 6:1 Hebrew in Zion.
Amos 1:8
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8 I will slaughter the people of Ashdod
and destroy the king of Ashkelon.
Then I will turn to attack Ekron,
and the few Philistines still left will be killed,”
says the Sovereign Lord.
Amos 8:6
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6 And you mix the grain you sell
with chaff swept from the floor.
Then you enslave poor people
for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
Jeremiah 50:2
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2 This is what the Lord says:
“Tell the whole world,
and keep nothing back.
Raise a signal flag
to tell everyone that Babylon will fall!
Her images and idols[a] will be shattered.
Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
Footnotes
- 50:2 The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.
Jeremiah 31:5
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5 Again you will plant your vineyards on the mountains of Samaria
and eat from your own gardens there.
1 Samuel 5:1
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The Ark in Philistia
5 After the Philistines captured the Ark of God, they took it from the battleground at Ebenezer to the town of Ashdod.
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Ezekiel 37:22
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22 I will unify them into one nation on the mountains of Israel. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations or into two kingdoms.
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Ezekiel 36:8
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8 “But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit for my people—for they will be coming home again soon!
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Jeremiah 46:14
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14 “Shout it out in Egypt!
Publish it in the cities of Migdol, Memphis,[a] and Tahpanhes!
Mobilize for battle,
for the sword will devour everyone around you.
Jeremiah 31:7-9
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7 Now this is what the Lord says:
“Sing with joy for Israel.[a]
Shout for the greatest of nations!
Shout out with praise and joy:
‘Save your people, O Lord,
the remnant of Israel!’
8 For I will bring them from the north
and from the distant corners of the earth.
I will not forget the blind and lame,
the expectant mothers and women in labor.
A great company will return!
9 Tears of joy will stream down their faces,
and I will lead them home with great care.
They will walk beside quiet streams
and on smooth paths where they will not stumble.
For I am Israel’s father,
and Ephraim is my oldest child.
Jeremiah 22:8-9
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8 “People from many nations will pass by the ruins of this city and say to one another, ‘Why did the Lord destroy such a great city?’ 9 And the answer will be, ‘Because they violated their covenant with the Lord their God by worshiping other gods.’”
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Jeremiah 2:10-11
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10 “Go west and look in the land of Cyprus[a];
go east and search through the land of Kedar.
Has anyone ever heard of anything
as strange as this?
11 Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,
even though they are not gods at all?
Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God[b]
for worthless idols!
2 Samuel 1:20
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20 Don’t announce the news in Gath,
don’t proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon,
or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice
and the pagans will laugh in triumph.
Deuteronomy 29:24-28
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24 “And all the surrounding nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why was he so angry?’
25 “And the answer will be, ‘This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 Instead, they turned away to serve and worship gods they had not known before, gods that were not from the Lord. 27 That is why the Lord’s anger has burned against this land, bringing down on it every curse recorded in this book. 28 In great anger and fury the Lord uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!’
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