Amos 4:6

I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities 1 and lack of bread in all your places. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

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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

5Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice with bread; 1 proclaim freewill offerings; announce them, 1 for this pleases you, 1 you people of Israel 1 —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. 1

7I also withheld rain from you 1 when there were still three months to the harvest. 1 I caused it to rain on one city, 1 and caused it not to rain on another city. 1 One piece of land was rained on, 1 but the piece of land where it did not rain dried up. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.

Ruth 1:1It happened in the days when the judges ruled that there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem of Judah went to the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

1 Kings 18:2Elijah went to show himself to Ahab; now the famine was severe in Samaria.

2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Chronicles 28:22This same King Ahaz sinned even more against Yahweh in his time of suffering.

Isaiah 9:12the Arameans on the east, and the Philistines on the west. They will devour Israel with open mouth. 1 In all these things, his anger does not subside; instead, his hand is still stretched out. 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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