Amos 6:13
You joyfully celebrate your conquest of Lodebar, and say “Didn't we in our own strength capture Karnaim?”
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In The King James Version
Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 32:18But Moses replied, “These are not the shouts of victory or of defeat. What I'm hearing is people partying!”
Judges 9:27At harvest-time they went out into the countryside and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them. They celebrated by having a festival in the temple of their god, where they ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
1 Samuel 4:5When the Ark of the Lord's Agreement arrived in the camp, all the Israelites gave such a loud shout it made the ground shake.
2 Kings 14:12The army of Judah was defeated by Israel, and ran away home.
2 Chronicles 28:6In just one day, Pekah, son of Remaliah, killed 120,000 fighting men in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers.
Job 31:25Have I delighted in being rich, happy at all my wealth I had gained?
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 →