Amos 7:17

God's Word

“However, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will be killed with swords. Your land will be surveyed and divided up, and you will die in an unclean  land. Israel cannot avoid being taken from its land into exile.”

Cross References

2 Kings 17:6

In Hoshea’s ninth year as king of Israel, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took the Israelites to Assyria as captives. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Psalm 78:55

He forced nations out of their way and gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.

Isaiah 13:16

Their little children will be smashed to death right before their eyes. Their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

Isaiah 22:18

He will wrap you up tightly like a turban. He will throw you far away into another land. There you will die. There your splendid chariots will remain. There you will become a disgrace to your master’s household.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people they prophesy to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem. They will be victims of famines and wars. No one will bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour on them the destruction that they deserve.

Jeremiah 20:6

And you, Pashhur, and all those who live in your house will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and you will die there. You will be buried there together with all your friends to whom you prophesied these lies.”

Jeremiah 28:12

After the prophet Hananiah broke the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said,

Jeremiah 28:16

This is what the Lord says: I’m going to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have encouraged rebellion against the Lord.”

Jeremiah 29:21

This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says about Kolaiah’s son Ahab and about Maaseiah’s son Zedekiah, who prophesy lies to you in my name: I’m going to hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will kill them as you watch.

Jeremiah 29:25

‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah, son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. These letters said:

Lamentations 5:11

Women in Zion are raped, so are the girls in the cities of Judah.

Ezekiel 4:13

Then the Lord said, “In the same way, the people of Israel will eat unclean  bread among the nations where I scatter them.”

Hosea 9:3

The people of Ephraim won’t stay in the Lord’s land. They will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean  food in Assyria.

Amos 6:7

That is why they will now be the first to go into exile. The celebrating of those sprawled around the banquet table will stop.

Amos 7:11

Amos says that Jeroboam will be killed with a sword and that Israel cannot avoid being taken from its land into exile.”

Amos 8:1

This is what the Almighty Lord showed me: a basket of ripe summer fruit.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: Strike the tops of the pillars so that the foundations shake. Cut off everyone’s head. I will kill with a sword all who are left. None of them will be able to get away. None of them will be able to escape.

Amos 9:8

I, the Almighty Lord, have my eyes on this sinful kingdom. I will wipe it off the face of the earth. But I won’t totally destroy the descendants of Jacob, declares the Lord.

Micah 1:16

Shave your head in mourning for the children you love. Make yourselves as bald as vultures because your children will be taken from you into exile.

Zechariah 14:2

I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people in the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people won’t be taken from the city.