Amos 6:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Horses

For

General references

Matthew 13:5

Mark 4:5

Luke 8:6

Bible References

Horses

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

For

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

General references

and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth: and straightway they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth:

And other fell on the rocky ground , where it had not much earth; and straightway it sprang up, because it had no deepness of earth:

And other fell on the rock; and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.