'Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan': Samaria's pampered women who crush the needy and say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink. Then bitter parody of pilgrimage: 'Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression': sacrifice every morning, tithe every three days, 'for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel.' Five disciplines follow, each closing with the same refrain, 'yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah': famine, drought, blight and locust, plague and sword, overthrow like Sodom: 'and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning.' Hence the summons: 'prepare to meet thy God, O Israel' (4:12).

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Amos — Amos overview

A. 1–3 Cows of Bashan dragged away with hooks
B. 4–5 Come to Bethel and transgress — you love it so
C. 6–11 Yet you have not returned to me
D. 12–13 Prepare to meet your God, O Israel

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Ezekiel 122 verses
- Ezekiel 12:5As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
- Ezekiel 12:12And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.
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Deuteronomy 282 verses
- Deuteronomy 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:60He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
- Read Deuteronomy 28 →
Amos 92 verses
- Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- Amos 9:6He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
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Haggai 21 verse
- Haggai 2:17I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
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Psalms 221 verse
- Psalms 22:12Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
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Amos 61 verse
- Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Read Amos 6 →
Ezekiel 391 verse
- Ezekiel 39:18You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
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Jeremiah 161 verse
- Jeremiah 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.