Amos 1:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon [descendants of Lot] and for four [for multiplied delinquencies], I will not reverse the punishment of it or revoke My word concerning it, because [the Ammonites] have ripped up women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

Common English Bible

¹³ The LORD proclaims: For three crimes of the Ammonites, and for four, I won’t hold back the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to possess more land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has cut up the pregnant women of Gilead, so as to expand his limits.

Amos 1:13 Cross References

Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Ezekiel 35:10

Because you said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them”—although the Lord was there—

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!

Amos 1:3

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

Ezekiel 21:28

As for you, mortal, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say: A sword, a sword! Drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning.

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they mocked and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

2 Chronicles 20:10

See now, the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt and whom they avoided and did not destroy,

2 Chronicles 20:1

After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

2 Kings 24:2

He sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Arameans, bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites; he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

Deuteronomy 2:19

When you approach the frontier of the Ammonites, do not harass them or engage them in battle, for I will not give the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot.’

Psalm 83:7

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

2 Kings 15:16

At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah, all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, he sacked it. He ripped open all the pregnant women in it.

Jeremiah 25:21

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

2 Samuel 12:31

He brought out the people who were in it and set them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes or sent them to the brickworks. Thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 8:12

Hazael asked, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set their fortresses on fire; you will kill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their pregnant women.”

Ezekiel 25:1

The word of the Lord came to me:

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.