Amos 3:1

“You people of Israel, I brought all your ancestors out of Egypt; so listen to what I am saying about you.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

In Context

2From all the people-groups on the earth, I chose and took care of only you. That is the reason that I will punish you for the sins that you have committed.”

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:13We people are the descendants of his servant Jacob; we are the people of Israel whom he has chosen.

Isaiah 46:3Yahweh says, “You descendants of Jacob who were exiled, I am not like the gods of Babylonia that must be carried; instead, it is as though I have carried you since you first became a nation [MET]. I carried you even before you became a nation.

Jeremiah 8:3And all the people of this wicked nation who are still alive and whom I have exiled to other countries will say, ‘We would prefer to die than to continue to stay alive here in these countries.’ That will be true because I, Yahweh, have said it.”

Jeremiah 33:24“Have you noticed/heard that some people are saying, ‘Yahweh chose two groups, the people of Judah and the people of Israel, and later abandoned them.’ They are despising my people and saying that Israel no longer deserves to be considered a nation.

Hosea 4:1You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh! He is accusing you people who live in this country, saying “The people are not faithfully doing what pleases me, they are not kind to others, and they do not even know me!

Amos 2:10I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, and then I led them through the desert for 40 years. And then I enabled them to conquer/possess the Amor area.

Matthew Henry on Amos 3:1

A stupid, senseless, heedless people, are, in this chapter, called upon to take notice, I. Of the judgments of God denounced against them and the warnings he gave them of those judgments, and to be hereby awakened out of their security, ver. 1-8 . II. Of the sins that were found among them, by which God was provoked thus to threaten, thus to punish, that they might justify God in his controversy with them, and, unless they repented and reformed, might expect no other than that God should proceed in his… Read the whole commentary →

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