Amos 6:1

Woe to them that set at nought Zion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered the harvest of the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

In Context

2O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by thence to Hamath Rabba; and thence descend to Gath of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.

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Cross References

Judges 18:7And the five men went on, and came to Laish; and they saw the people in the midst of it dwelling securely, at ease as is the manner of the Sidonians, and there is no one perverting or shaming a matter in the land, no heir extorting treasures; and they are far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with anyone.

Proverbs 1:32For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; 1 And an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly. 1

Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 48:11And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ishmael had done.

Lamentations 1:1How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! 1 She is become as a widow: 1 She that was magnified among the nations, 1 And princess among the provinces, 1 Has become tributary. 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 6:1

In this chapter we have, I. A sinful people studying to put a slight upon God's threatenings and to make them appear trivial, confiding in their privileges and pre-eminences above other nations ( ver. 2, 3 ), and their power ( ver. 13 ), and wholly addicted to their pleasures, ver. 4-6 . II. A serious prophet studying to put a weight upon God's threatenings and to make them appear terrible, by setting forth the severity of those judgments that were coming upon these sensualists ( ver. 7 ), God's abhorring them,… Read the whole commentary →

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