Amos 3:8 KJV — MannaFest

Amos 3:8

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

KJV

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ASV

The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?

WEB

The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken— who will not prophesy?

YLT

A lion hath roared--who doth not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken--who doth not prophesy?

DBT

The lion hath roared, — who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken, — who can but prophesy?

About this book

Old Testament

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Amos — A herdsman of Tekoa sent north to Bethel — a shepherd-prophet preaching judgment on a prosperous, comfortable, oppressive society. ‘Let justice roll down.’

Author: Amos, a herdman of Tekoa in Judah, sent to Israel at Bethel (1:1, 7:14)
Date: c. 760–750 BC, during the reigns of Uzziah in Judah and Jeroboam II in Israel

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Cross-references

30 verses on the floor

1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Isaiah 31:4
For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
Psalms 50:1
The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Amos 3:4
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Nay, and besides the prophetic impulse which went along with the inspiration, and made the word like a fire in their bones ( Jer. xx. 9 ), they received a command from God to deliver what they had been charged with; and they would have been false to their trust if they had not done it. Necessity was laid upon them, as upon the preachers of the gospel, 1 Cor. ix.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Of the sins that were found among them, by which God was provoked thus to threaten, thus to punish, that they might justify God in his controversy with them, and, unless they repented and reformed, might expect no other than that God should proceed in his controversy,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Hath roared - As a lion roareth when near his prey: so God hath terribly threatened what is near to be done. Prophesy - Amos can not but speak what he had heard.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Connections1

Where this verse connects

Inclusio Amos 1:2
BOOK/SECTION. Amos's roaring-lion frame: 'The LORD will roar from Zion' (1:2) and 'The lion hath roared, who will not fear?' (3:8) bracket the oracles against the nations. Hays: catchword volume + coherence high.
ASV/WEB text; academia.edu 'The Literary Tapestry of Amos 3:1-8'

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

AMO 3:8JER 20:9 PSA 39:3
AMO 3:8JER 20:9 1CO 9:16-17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
AMO 3:8JER 20:9 JOB 32:18-20
AMO 3:8JER 20:9 ACT 4:20
AMO 3:8ACT 4:20 JER 20:9
AMO 3:8ACT 4:20 ACT 22:15
AMO 3:8JER 20:9 ACT 17:16
AMO 3:8AMO 1:2 JOE 3:16

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