Amos 2:1
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
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Numbers 22:1And the children of Israel departed, and encamped on the west of Moab by Jordan toward Jericho.
2 Kings 3:9And the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey; and there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that went with them.
Psalms 83:4Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, 1 And the turtledove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, 1 Even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, 1 My King, and my God. 1
Isaiah 11:14And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them that come from the east, and Edom: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.
Isaiah 25:10God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.
Ezekiel 25:8Thus saith the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the house of Israel and Judah like all the 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 →