Amos 4:11

I have overthrown some of you, 1 as Elohim overthrew Sodom and Amora (Gomorrah), 1 and ye were like a firebrand snatched from the burning; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

In Context

10I have sent among you the dever after the manner of Mitzrayim; 1 your bocherim have I slain with the cherev, 1 and have taken away your susim; 1 and I have made the stench 1 of your machanot to come up unto your nostrils; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Yisroel; 1 and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet Eloheicha, O Yisroel. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:24Hashem shall make the matar of thy land powder and dust; from Shomayim shall it come down upon thee, until thou be shmad.

Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, 1 the tiferet ga'on Kasdim, 1 shall be as when Elohim overthrew 1 S'dom and Amora (Gomorrah). 1

Jeremiah 6:28They are all maximum rebels, 1 going about as rachil (talebearers, slanderers); 1 they are nechoshet and barzel; 1 they are all corrupt. 1

Jeremiah 49:18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Amora (Gomorrah) and the neighboring towns thereof, saith Hashem, no ish shall abide there, neither shall a ben adam dwell in it.

Ezekiel 22:17And the Devar Hashem came unto me, saying,

Hosea 11:5Will they not return into Eretz Mitzrayim? 1 And will not the Assyrian be his melech, 1 because they refused to make teshuvah. 1

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 →

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