Amos 2:1
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Numbers 22:1And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over against where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan.
2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel, and the king of Juda, and the king of Edom went, and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey, and there was no water for the army, and for the beasts, that followed them.
Psalms 83:4They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
Isaiah 11:14But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, and Moab shall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.
Isaiah 25:10dummy verses inserted by amos
Ezekiel 25:8Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations:
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:1
In this chapter, I. God, by the prophet, proceeds in a like controversy with Moab as before with other nations, ver. 1-3 . II. He shows what quarrel he had with Judah, ver. 4, 5 . III. He at length begins his charge against Israel, to which all that goes before is but an introduction. Observe, 1. The sins they are charged with—injustice, oppression, whoredom, ver. 6-8 . 2. The aggravations of those sins—the temporal and spiritual mercies God had bestowed upon them, for which they had made him such ungrateful… Read the whole commentary →