Amos 2:4

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments. The lies which their fathers followed have led them astray.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:19

Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2 Chronicles 25:14

And it happened after Amaziah came back from striking down the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people from Seir and set them up as gods for himself. He worshipped them and gave them sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not act like your fathers and brothers who were faithless before the Lord God of their fathers, and He appointed them for horror, as you observe.

Nehemiah 1:7

We have acted very corruptly against You and have not obeyed the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which You commanded Your servant Moses.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless they became disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who had warned them to turn back to You. But they committed terrible provocations.

Isaiah 28:15

because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are in agreement. The overflowing scourge shall not come to us when it passes through, for we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside so that he cannot deliver his soul, or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Jeremiah 16:11

then you shall say to them: Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says the Lord, and have walked after other gods and have served them and have worshipped them, but have forsaken Me and have not kept My law.

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the imaginations of his evil heart, so that they do not listen to Me.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you will not listen to Me to sanctify the Sabbath day and not to bear a load, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in the gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and it will not be quenched.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth. Behold, I will bring calamity on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My words, nor to My law, but rejected it.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed; they are dismayed and caught. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what kind of wisdom do they have?

Jeremiah 9:14

but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked that he should not turn from his wicked way and save his life,

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live. And My Sabbaths they greatly polluted. Then I said I would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:16

because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but polluted My Sabbaths, for their hearts went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:18

But I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes and had polluted My Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 20:30

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Will you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers and commit harlotry after their abominations?

Ezekiel 22:28

Her prophets have daubed them with whitewash, seeing vanity and divining lies for them, saying, “Thus says the Lord God,” when the Lord has not spoken.

Ezekiel 22:8

You have despised My holy things and have profaned My Sabbaths.

Hosea 12:2

The Lord has a dispute with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, and repay him according to his doings.

Hosea 12:3

In the womb, he took his brother by the heel, and by his strength he strove with God.

Hosea 6:11

Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of My people.

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.

Amos 3:2

You alone have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Micah 6:12

Her wealthy men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak deception, and their tongue in their mouth is treachery.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profit is a carved image when its maker has carved it, a cast image, and a teacher of lies, that its maker trusts in what he has shaped when he makes mute idols?

Romans 1:25

They turned the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore he that despises does not despise man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver or gold,

Judges 10:6

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshipped the Baals, the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not serve Him.