Amos 3:13

Hear and testify to the house of Jacob,” || A declaration of Lord YHWH, God of Hosts.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

In Context

12Thus said YHWH: “As the shepherd delivers from the lion’s mouth || Two legs, or a piece of an ear, || So the sons of Israel are delivered, || Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, || And in Damascus [on that of] a couch.

14“For in the day of My charging the transgressions of Israel on him, I have laid a charge on the altars of Beth-El, || And the horns of the altar have been cut off, || And they have fallen to the earth.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:18I have declared to you this day that you certainly perish, you do not prolong days on the ground which you are passing over the Jordan to go in there to possess it.

2 Kings 17:13And YHWH testifies against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets”;

2 Chronicles 24:19And He sends among them prophets, to bring them back to YHWH, and they testify against them, and they have not given ear;

Ezekiel 2:7and you have spoken My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refrain, for they [are] a rebellion.

Acts 2:40Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation”;

Acts 20:21testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, conversion toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew Henry on Amos 3:10-15

Israel Convicted and Condemned. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord , who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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