Amos 3:12

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The Lord saith these things, As if a shepherd ravisheth from the mouth of a lion twain [or two] hips, either the last thing of the ear, so the children of Israel shall be ravished, that dwell in Samaria, in the country of a bed, and in the bed of Damascus.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:30

And they that were left fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall felled [or fell] down upon seven and twenty thousand of men that were left. Forsooth Benhadad fled, and entered into the city, into a closet that was within a bed-closet;

1 Kings 20:34

[The] Which Benhadad said to him, I shall yield the cities which my father took from thy father, and make thou streets to thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria; and I shall be bound to peace, and I shall depart from thee. Therefore Ahab made [a] bond of peace with him, and delivered him.

1 Kings 22:25

And Micaiah said, Thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into a closet within a bed-closet, that thou be hid.

2 Kings 16:9

and he assented to his will. Soothly the king of Assyrians went up into Damascus, and wasted it, and translated or brought over the dwellers thereof to Kir; soothly he killed Rezin.

Esther 1:6

And tents of the colour of the air, and of gold, and of jacinth, were held up with cords of bis, and of purple, and they hanged on each side, the which tents were set-in [or in-set] with circles of ivory, and they were underset with pillars of marble; also there were ordained seats, at the manner of beds, of gold and of silver, upon the pavement arrayed with smaragdus and with other diverse and precious stones; the which pavement painture made fair by wonderful diversity.

Esther 7:8

And when the king turned again from the garden, and had entered into the place of the feast, he found that Haman had fallen down upon the bed, wherein Esther lay. And the king said, Also he will oppress the queen, while I am present, in mine house. And the word was not yet gone out of the king’s mouth, and anon men covered the face of Haman.

Psalm 132:3

I shall not enter into the taber-nacle of mine house; I shall not ascend [or go up] into the bed of my resting.

Isaiah 17:7

In that day a man shall be bowed to his maker, and his eyes shall behold to the Holy of Israel.

Isaiah 31:4

For why the Lord saith these things to me, If a lion roareth, and a whelp of a lion on his prey, when the multitude of shepherds cometh against him, he shall not dread of the voice of them, and he shall not dread of the multitude of them; so the Lord of hosts shall come down, for to fight on the mountain [or mount] of Zion, and on the little hill thereof.

Isaiah 8:4

For why before that the child know how to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus shall be done away, and the spoils of Samaria, before the king of Assyrians.

Amos 6:4

and ye sleep in beds of ivory, and do lechery in your beds; and ye eat a lamb of the flock, and calves of the middle of the drove;

Amos 9:8

Lo! the eyes of the Lord God be on the realm sinning, and I shall all-break it from the face of [the] earth; nevertheless I all-breaking shall not all-break the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.