Amos 4:7
Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.
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Exodus 8:22And Moses said, It cannot be so, for we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God the abominations of the Egyptians; for if we sacrifice the abominations of the Egyptians before them, we shall be stoned.
Exodus 9:26Only in the land of Goshen where the children of Israel were, the hail was not.
Leviticus 26:18And if ye still refuse to hearken to me, then will I chasten you yet more even seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:27And if hereupon ye will not obey me, but walk perversely toward me,
Deuteronomy 28:23And thou shalt have over thy head a sky of brass, and the earth under thee shall be iron.
1 Kings 8:35When the heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall sin against thee, and they shall pray toward this place, and shall make confession to thy name, and shall turn from their sins when thou shalt have humbled them,
Matthew Henry on Amos 4:7-13
Incorrigibleness of Israel; Judgments Called to Remembrance; Greater Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 790.) 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8… Read the whole commentary →