Amos 6:14
For behold, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, saith the Lord of hosts; and they shall afflict you so that ye shall not enter into Æmath, and as it were from the river of the wilderness.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
13ye who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength?
Cross References
1 Kings 8:65And Solomon kept the feast in that day, and all Israel with him, even a great assembly from the entering in of Hemath to the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God in the house which he built, eating and drinking, and rejoicing before the Lord our God seven days.
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Phakee king of Israel came Thalgath-phellasar king of the Assyrians, and took Ain, and Abel, and Thamaacha, and Anioch, and Kenez, and Asor, and + 15:29 Or, Galaan.Galaa, and Galilee, even all the land of Nephthali, and carried them away to the Assyrians.
Isaiah 7:20In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.
Isaiah 10:5Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.
Ezekiel 47:15And these are the borders of the land that lies northward, from the great sea that comes down, and divides the entrance of Emaseldam;
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 →