Amos 6:8
The Lord God has sworn by his own soul, the Lord God of hosts says: I detest the arrogance of Jacob, and I hate his houses, and I will hand over the city with its inhabitants.
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In Context
9For if there were ten men remaining in one house, even they will die.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:11I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and my soul will not cast you out.
Deuteronomy 32:19The Lord saw, and he was stirred to anger. For his own sons and daughters provoked him.
Psalms 50:12Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
Psalms 106:40Contempt was poured over their leaders, and he caused them to wander in an impassable place, and not on the way.
Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of arrogance, to the inebriated of Ephraim, and to the falling flower, the glory of his exultation, to those who were at the top of the very fat valley, staggering from wine.
Jeremiah 22:14And he says: ‘I will build a broad house for myself, with spacious upper rooms.’ He makes windows for himself, and he builds the roof out of cedar, and he paints it with red ocher.
Matthew Henry on Amos 6:2-8
The Danger of False Security. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? 3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch… Read the whole commentary →