Discovery Box| (0.25) | Amo 1:1 |
| The following is a record of what Amos prophesied. 1 He 2 was one of the herdsmen from Tekoa. These prophecies about Israel were revealed to him 3 during the time of 4 King Uzziah of Judah and 5 King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 6 |
| (0.25) | Amo 3:12 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion’s mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged. 1 They will be left with just a corner of a bed, 2 and a part 3 of a couch.” |
| (0.25) | Amo 4:10 |
| “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. 1 I killed your young men with the sword, along with the horses you had captured. I made the stench from the corpses 2 rise up into your nostrils. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking! |
| (0.25) | Amo 6:2 |
| They say to the people: 1 “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! 2 Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two 3 kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?” 4 |
| (0.25) | Amo 6:10 |
| When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, 1 pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” He will respond, “Be quiet! Don’t invoke the Lord’s name!” 2 |
| (0.25) | Amo 7:17 |
| “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets 1 and your sons and daughters will die violently. 2 Your land will be given to others 3 and you will die in a foreign 4 land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile 5 away from its land.’” |
| (0.25) | Mic 2:4 |
| In that day people will sing this taunt song to you – they will mock you with this lament: 1 ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off 2 the property of my people. How they remove it from me! 3 They assign our fields to the conqueror.’ 4 |
| (0.25) | Mic 4:2 |
| Many nations will come, saying, “Come on! Let’s go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the temple 1 of Jacob’s God, so he can teach us his commands 2 and we can live by his laws.” 3 For Zion will be the source of instruction; the Lord’s teachings will proceed from Jerusalem. 4 |
| (0.25) | Mic 4:10 |
| Twist and strain, 1 Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the Lord will deliver 2 you from the power 3 of your enemies. |
| (0.25) | Mic 4:13 |
| “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion! For I will give you iron horns; 1 I will give you bronze hooves, and you will crush many nations.” 2 You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them, and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler 3 of the whole earth. 4 |
| (0.25) | Mic 5:6 |
| They will rule 1 the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod 2 with a drawn sword. 3 Our king 4 will rescue us from the Assyrians should they attempt to invade our land and try to set foot in our territory. |
| (0.25) | Mic 5:7 |
| Those survivors from 1 Jacob will live 2 in the midst of many nations. 3 They will be like the dew the Lord sends, like the rain on the grass, that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive. 4 |
| (0.25) | Mic 5:8 |
| Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through; it rips its prey 1 and there is no one to stop it. 2 |
| (0.25) | Hab 3:17 |
| When 1 the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, 2 and the fields yield no crops; 3 when the sheep disappear 4 from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls, |
| (0.25) | Zep 1:3 |
| “I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) 1 I will remove 2 humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord. |
| (0.25) | Zep 2:7 |
| Those who are left from the kingdom of Judah 1 will take possession of it. 2 By the sea 3 they 4 will graze, in the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening, for the Lord their God will intervene for them 5 and restore their prosperity. 6 |
| (0.25) | Zec 5:3 |
| The speaker went on to say, “This is a curse 1 traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals 2 will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.” |
| (0.25) | Zec 8:9 |
| “The Lord who rules over all also says, ‘Gather strength, you who are listening to these words today from the mouths of the prophets who were there at the founding of the house of the Lord who rules over all, 1 so that the temple might be built. |
| (0.25) | Zec 8:23 |
| The Lord who rules over all says, ‘In those days ten people from all languages and nations will grasp hold of – indeed, grab – the robe of one Jew and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’” 1 |
| (0.25) | Zec 11:6 |
| Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the Lord, “but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.” |
