Amos 2:6 (KJV)

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Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes

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For three. Am 6:3-7 2Ki 17:7-18 2Ki 18:12 Eze 23:5-9 Ho 4:1 Ho 4:2 Ho 4:11-14 Ho 7:7-10 Ho 8:4-6 Ho 13:2 Ho 13:3 Mic 6:10-16

because. Am 5:11 Am 5:12 Am 8:4-6 Isa 5:22 Isa 5:23 Isa 29:21 Joe 3:3 Joe 3:6 Mic 3:2 Mic 3:3

Thus saith.Amos, says Abp. Newcome, first prophesies against the Syrians, Philistines, Tyrians, Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites, who dwelt in the neighbourhood of the twelve tribes, and had occasionally become their enemies and persecutors. Having thus taught his countrymen that the providence of God extended to other nations, he briefly mentions the idolatrous practices and consequent destruction of Judah, and then passes on to his proper subject, which was to exhort and reprove the kingdom of Israel, and to denounce against it the Divine judgments.

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