Discovery Box| (0.44) | Amo 1:5 |
| I will break the bar 1 on the gate of Damascus. I will remove 2 the ruler 3 from Wicked Valley, 4 the one who holds the royal scepter from Beth Eden. 5 The people of Aram will be deported to Kir.” 6 The Lord has spoken! |
| (0.44) | Amo 1:6 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Gaza 1 has committed three crimes 2 – make that four! 3 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 4 They deported a whole community 5 and sold them 6 to Edom. |
| (0.44) | Amo 1:8 |
| I will remove 1 the ruler 2 from Ashdod, 3 the one who holds the royal scepter from Ashkelon. 4 I will strike Ekron 5 with my hand; 6 the rest of the Philistines will also die.” 7 The sovereign Lord has spoken! |
| (0.44) | Amo 2:1 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Moab has committed three crimes 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They burned the bones of Edom’s king into lime. 4 |
| (0.44) | Amo 2:6 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They sold the innocent 4 for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals. 5 |
| (0.44) | Amo 3:1 |
| Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the Lord is proclaiming against 1 you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up 2 from the land of Egypt: |
| (0.44) | Amo 3:11 |
| Therefore,” says the sovereign Lord, “an enemy will encircle the land. 1 He will take away your power; 2 your fortresses will be looted.” |
| (0.44) | Amo 4:1 |
| Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan 1 who live on Mount Samaria! You 2 oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your 3 husbands, “Bring us more to drink!” 4 |
| (0.44) | Amo 5:3 |
| The sovereign Lord says this: “The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers 1 will have only a hundred left; the town 2 that marches out with a hundred soldiers 3 will have only ten left for the family of Israel.” 4 |
| (0.44) | Amo 5:14 |
| Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the Lord, the God who commands armies, just might be with you, as you claim he is. |
| (0.44) | Amo 7:2 |
| When they had completely consumed the earth’s vegetation, I said, “Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! 1 How can Jacob survive? 2 He is too weak!” 3 |
| (0.44) | Amo 7:12 |
| Amaziah then said to Amos, “Leave, you visionary! 1 Run away to the land of Judah! Earn your living 2 and prophesy there! |
| (0.44) | Amo 7:14 |
| Amos replied 1 to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. 2 No, 3 I was a herdsman who also took care of 4 sycamore fig trees. 5 |
| (0.44) | Amo 7:16 |
| So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach 1 against the family of Isaac!’ |
| (0.44) | Amo 8:5 |
| You say, “When will the new moon festival 1 be over, 2 so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, 3 so we can open up the grain bins? 4 We’re eager 5 to sell less for a higher price, 6 and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 7 |
| (0.44) | Amo 8:14 |
| These are the ones who now take oaths 1 in the name of the sinful idol goddess 2 of Samaria. They vow, 3 ‘As surely as your god 4 lives, O Dan,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved one 5 lives, O Beer Sheba!’ But they will fall down and not get up again.” |
| (0.44) | Amo 9:15 |
| I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the 1 land I have given them,” says the Lord your God. |
| (0.44) | Oba 1:1 |
| The vision 1 that Obadiah 2 saw. 3 The Lord God 4 says this concerning 5 Edom: 6 |
| (0.44) | Oba 1:3 |
| Your presumptuous heart 1 has deceived you – you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs, 2 whose home is high in the mountains. 3 You think to yourself, 4 ‘No one can 5 bring me down to the ground!’ 6 |
| (0.44) | Jon 1:7 |
| The sailors said to one another, 1 “Come on, let’s cast lots 2 to find out 3 whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us. 4 ” So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out. 5 |
