Amos 2:1
Thus sayth the Lord, For three transgressions of Moab, and for foure, I will not turne to it, because it burnt the bones of the King of Edom into lime.
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Numbers 22:1After, the children of Israel departed and pitched in the plaine of Moab on the other side of Iorden from Iericho.
2 Kings 3:9So went the King of Israel and the king of Iudah, and the King of Edom, and when they had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had no water for the hoste, nor for the cattell that followed them.
Psalms 83:4They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.
Isaiah 11:14But they shall flee vpon the shoulders of the Philistims toward the West: they shall spoyle them of the East together: Edom and Moab shall be the stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammon in their obedience.
Isaiah 25:10For in this mountaine shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shalbe threshed vnder him, euen as strawe is thresshed in Madmenah.
Ezekiel 25:8Thus saith the Lord God, Because that Moab and Seir doe say, Beholde, the house of Iudah is like vnto all the heathen,
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 →