Amos 2:1
The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime;
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Numbers 22:1The children of Israel travelled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.
Psalms 83:4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Isaiah 11:14They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
Isaiah 25:10For the LORD’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
Ezekiel 25:8“‘The Lord GOD says: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’
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 →