Amos 4:10

I sent a plague on you as on Egypt. 1 I killed your young men with the sword, 1 carried away your horses, 1 and made the stench of your camp come up 1 to your nostrils. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

In Context

9I afflicted you with blight and mildew. 1 The multitude of your gardens, 1 your vineyards, 1 your fig trees, 1 and your olive trees— 1 the locusts devoured them all. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

11I overthrew cities among you, 1 as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 1 You were like a burning stick snatched out of the fire. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 9:3then Yahweh's hand will be on your cattle in the fields and on the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks, and it will cause a terrible disease.

Exodus 9:17You are still lifting yourself up against my people by not letting them go.

Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go so that they may worship me.

Exodus 12:29It happened at midnight that Yahweh attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the person in prison and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exodus 15:26He said, “If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in his eyes, and if you give ear to his commands and obey all his laws—I will put on you none of the diseases that I put on the Egyptians, for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Leviticus 26:25I will bring a sword on you that will execute vengeance for breaking the covenant. You will be gathered together inside your cities, and I will send a disease among you there, and then you will be delivered into the hand of your enemy.

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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