Verse 15

Thus it will happen to you, Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn, the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf idol of Beth-aven. Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, who rejoiced over its glory, because it will be taken from them.
  • Hos 10:7 : 7 Samaria’s king will be destroyed, swept away like a twig on the surface of water.
  • Amos 7:9-9 : 9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, 'Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.' 11 For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their own land.' 12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, 'Seer, go and flee to the land of Judah; there you can earn your bread and prophesy there.' 13 'But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.' 14 Amos answered Amaziah, 'I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore figs.' 15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.' 16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.' 17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Did what is good then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, used what is good to bring about my death, so that sin might become utterly sinful through the commandment.
  • Isa 16:14 : 14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying: In three years, as precisely as the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab, along with its great multitude, will be brought into contempt. Only a small and insignificant remnant will remain, not mighty at all.
  • Hos 10:3 : 3 Now they will say, 'We have no king, for we did not fear the LORD. And as for the king, what could he do for us?