Amos 2:1
This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Moab, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because he burned the bones 1 of the king of Edom to lime. 1
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Numbers 22:1The people of Israel traveled on until they camped in the plains of Moab near Jericho, on the other side of the Jordan River from the city.
2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. They wandered around for seven days, and then there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
Psalms 83:4They have said, “Come, and let us destroy them as a nation. 1 Then the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.” 1
Isaiah 11:14Instead they will swoop down on the Philistine hills on the west, 1 and together they will plunder the people of the east. 1 They will attack Edom and Moab, and the people of Ammon will obey them. 1
Isaiah 25:10For on this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest; 1 and Moab will be trampled down in his place, even as straw is trampled down in a pit filled with manure. 1
Ezekiel 25:8The Lord Yahweh says this, 'Because Moab and Seir say, “Behold! The house of Judah is like every other nation.”
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:1
In this chapter, I. God, by the prophet, proceeds in a like controversy with Moab as before with other nations, ver. 1-3 . II. He shows what quarrel he had with Judah, ver. 4, 5 . III. He at length begins his charge against Israel, to which all that goes before is but an introduction. Observe, 1. The sins they are charged with—injustice, oppression, whoredom, ver. 6-8 . 2. The aggravations of those sins—the temporal and spiritual mercies God had bestowed upon them, for which they had made him such ungrateful… Read the whole commentary →