Amos 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept his statutes, but they have been led astray by the same lies after which their ancestors walked.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:19

Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

2 Chronicles 25:14

Now after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up as his gods, and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

2 Chronicles 30:7

Do not be like your ancestors and your kindred, who were faithless to the Lord God of their ancestors, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

Nehemiah 1:7

We have offended you deeply, failing to keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances that you commanded Moses your servant.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Jeremiah 16:11

then you shall say to them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,

Jeremiah 16:12

and because you have behaved worse than your ancestors, for here you are, every one of you, following your stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy and to carry in no burden through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates; it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not given heed to my words, and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom is in them?

Jeremiah 9:14

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not disheartened them, and you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their wicked way and save their lives,

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not observe my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live, and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make an end of them.

Ezekiel 20:16

because they rejected my ordinances and did not observe my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.

Ezekiel 20:18

I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they had not executed my ordinances but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their ancestors’ idols.

Ezekiel 20:30

Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your ancestors and go astray after their detestable things?

Ezekiel 22:28

Its prophets have smeared whitewash on their behalf, seeing false visions 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 profaned my Sabbaths.

Hosea 12:2

The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

Hosea 12:3

In the womb he tried to supplant his brother, and in his manhood he strove with God.

Hosea 6:11

For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would 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 only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is an idol once its maker has shaped it— a cast image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in what has been made, though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!

Romans 1:25

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold

Judges 10:6

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and the Astartes, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Thus they abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.