Amos 7:17

Modern English Version

“Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by measuring line; you yourself will die in an unclean land; and Israel will surely go into exile away from its land.’ ”

Cross References

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria seized Samaria and exiled Israel to Assyria. He put them in Halah, in Habor by the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Psalm 78:55

He cast out the nations before them, and divided for them their tribal allotments, and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Isaiah 13:16

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be devastated and their wives ravished.

Isaiah 22:18

He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country; there you shall die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord’s house.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. And they will have no one to bury them, not them, or their wives, or their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

Jeremiah 20:6

You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity; and you will come to Babylon, and there you will die and will be buried there, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.

Jeremiah 28:12

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying:

Jeremiah 28:16

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will cast you from off the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the Lord.”

Jeremiah 29:21

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.

Jeremiah 29:25

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

Ezekiel 4:13

Then the Lord said, “Even so the Israelites shall eat their defiled bread among the nations where I drive them.”

Hosea 9:3

They will not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Assyria.

Amos 6:7

Therefore now they will go at the head of the captives into exile, and the revelry of those who are lounging will vanish.

Amos 7:11

For this is what Amos said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely be exiled away from its land.’ ”

Amos 8:1

This is what the Lord God showed me: A basket of summer fruit.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and He said: Strike the capitals so that the thresholds shake; break them off onto the heads of all of them. Those who remain I will slay with the sword. Not one of them will get away; not one fugitive will survive.

Amos 9:8

The eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, though I will not completely destroy the house of Jacob, says the Lord.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald and shave your head for the children of your delight; make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured and the houses plundered and the women ravished. Half of the city will go to exile, but the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city.