Amos 7:9

The high places of Isaac will be destroyed, 1 the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined, 1 and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

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And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

In Context

8Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Look, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will spare them no longer. 1

10Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:23Then Isaac went up from there to Beersheba.

Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.

2 Kings 15:8In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months.

Isaiah 63:18Your people possessed your holy place for a short time, but then our enemies trampled it. 1

Hosea 10:8The high places of wickedness will be destroyed. 1 This is the sin of Israel! 1 Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. 1 The people will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” 1 and to the hills, “Fall on us!” 1

Amos 5:5Do not seek Bethel; 1 nor enter Gilgal; 1 do not journey to Beersheba. 1 For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, 1 and Bethel will become nothing. 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 7:2-10

Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God , forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord . 4 Thus hath… Read the whole commentary →

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