Amos 9:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Ye not

Jeremiah 9:25

Jeremiah 13:23

Have not

Amos 2:10

Exodus 12:51

Hosea 12:13

The philistines

Deuteronomy 2:23

Jeremiah 47:4

The syrians

Amos 1:5

2 Kings 16:9

Bible References

Ye not

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin
Or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good
Who are accustomed to doing evil.

Have not

“It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And I led you in the wilderness forty years

That you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

And on that same day the Lord brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt

by their hosts.

But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel from Egypt,
And by a prophet he was kept.

The philistines

And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the

Caphtorim who came from

Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)

On account of the day that is coming
To destroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon
Every ally that is left;
For the Lord is going to destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

The syrians

“I will also break the gate bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven,
And him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden;
So the people of Aram will go exiled to Kir,”
Says the Lord.

So the king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and captured it, and carried the people of it away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin to death.