Amos 4:6

I am the one who caused there to be no food in any of your cities and towns [DOU], but you rejected me in spite of that.

Translation for Translators

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

5Bring offerings of bread to thank me, and other offerings that are not required/commanded, and boast about these offerings that you bring, because that is what you like to do, but you do it to impress others, not to please me. That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it.

7When it was still three months before the time of harvesting crops, at the time when your crops needed rain the most, I prevented rain from falling. Sometimes I allowed rain to fall on some towns and prevented it from falling on other towns. Rain fell on some fields, but it did not fall on other fields, with the result that the soil in those fields where it did not rain dried up.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your food supply, there will be very little flour with which to make bread. As a result, ten women will be able to bake all their bread in only one oven. When the bread is baked, each woman will divide it among the members of her family, but there will be very little for each one, and when they have eaten all of it, they will still be hungry.

Ruth 1:1During the time before kings ruled Israel, ◄there was a famine/the people there had nothing to eat►. There was a man who lived there whose name was Elimelech. His wife’s name was Naomi, and his sons’ names were Mahlon and Chilion. They were all from Bethlehem town, from the Ephrath clan in Judah region.

1 Kings 18:2So Elijah went to talk to Ahab. In Samaria there was almost no food for anyone to eat.

2 Kings 6:25Because of that, after a while there was hardly any food left inside the city, with the result that eventually a donkey’s head, which was usually worthless, cost eighty pieces of silver, and ◄one cup/0.3 liter► of dove’s dung cost five pieces of silver.

2 Chronicles 28:22While King Ahaz was experiencing those troubles, he disobeyed Yahweh even more.

Isaiah 9:12The army of Syria came from the east, and the army of Philistia came from the west, and they destroyed Israel like a wild animal tears another animal apart and [MET] devours it. But even after that happened, Yahweh was still very angry with them. He was ready to strike them with his fist again.

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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