Amos 4:6

And I also have given you 1 cleanness of teeth + 4:6 i.e., famine in all your towns, 1 and want of lechem in all your places; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And offer a todah thank offering with chametz (leavened bread), 1 and proclaim and publish the nedavot (freewill offerings); 1 for this ye love, O Bnei Yisroel, saith Adonoi Hashem. 1

7And also I have withheld the geshem from you, 1 when there were yet shloshah chodashim to the harvest; 1 and I caused it to rain upon one town, 1 and caused it not to rain upon another town; 1 one chelek (part) was rained upon, 1 and the chelek, whereupon it rained not, withered. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:26And when I have broken the matteh (staff, supply) of your lechem, eser nashim shall bake your lechem in one oven, and they shall dole out your lechem by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Ruth 1:1Now it came to pass in the yamim when HaShofetim (the Judges) ruled, that there was a ra'av (famine) in the land. And a certain ish (man) of Beit-Lechem Yehudah went to sojourn in the sadei Moav, he, and his isha (wife), and his two banim (sons).

1 Kings 18:2And Eliyahu went to show himself unto Ach'av. And there was a ra'av chazak (strong famine) in Shomron.

2 Kings 6:25And there was a ra'av gadol in Shomron; and, hinei, they laid siege to it, until a rosh chamor was sold for fourscore pieces of kesef, and a quarter of a kav of doveʼs dung for five pieces of kesef.

2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his distress he did act even more unfaithfully against Hashem. This is that Melech Achaz.

Isaiah 9:12For HaAm turneth not unto Him that struck them, 1 neither do they seek Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 4:2-6

Threatenings against Oppressors; Punishment of Proud Oppressors. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into… Read the whole commentary →

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