Amos 3:11

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Summary

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.

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General references

Isaiah 17:9

Bible References

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“For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts,
“And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath
To the brook of the Arabah.”

Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule.

Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.

Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria.”

“Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the

Euphrates,

Even the king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

They will not return to the land of Egypt;

But Assyria—he will be their king
Because they refused to return to Me.

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But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

“So I will send fire upon Judah
And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

The Lord God has sworn by Himself, the Lord God of hosts has declared:
“I loathe the arrogance of Jacob,
And detest his citadels;
Therefore I will deliver up the city and all it contains.”

Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.

General references

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.