Amos 6:12
For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.
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1 Kings 21:7Then Jezebel, his wife, said to him: “You are of great authority, and you rule well in the kingdom of Israel. Rise up and eat bread, and be even-tempered. I will give the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, to you.”
Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn, and that your neck is like an iron sinew, and that your forehead is like brass.
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, your eyes look with favor upon faith. You have struck them, and they have not grieved. You have bruised them, and they have refused to accept discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, and they are not willing to return.
Hosea 10:4You speak words about a useless vision, and you will strike a deal. And judgment will spring up like bitterness in the furrows of the field.
Amos 5:7You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.
Matthew Henry on Amos 6:9-14
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 790.) 8 The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he… Read the whole commentary →