Amos 3:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “An adversary shall surround the land, and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:27

And the sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled;

2 Kings 15:19

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold of the royal power.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Jan-oah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

2 Chronicles 36:19

And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.

Job 20:21

There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

Amos 2:5

So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” says the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

Amos 3:15

I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end,” says the Lord.

Amos 6:14

“For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,” says the Lord, the God of hosts; “and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his strongholds; and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”