Amos 1:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.

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  • Ezek 25:16 : 16 The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land.
  • Isa 14:29-31 : 29 Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake. 30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword. 31 Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.
  • Zeph 2:4-7 : 4 For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted. 5 Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you. 6 And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks. 7 The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.
  • Jer 47:4-5 : 4 Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor. 5 The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.
  • Zech 9:6 : 6 And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.
  • Isa 20:1 : 1 In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;
  • 2 Chr 26:6 : 6 He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.
  • Ps 81:14 : 14 I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
  • Isa 1:25 : 25 And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.
  • Amos 3:9 : 9 Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 25:13-17
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    84%

    13 The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.

    14 I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.

    15 This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;

    16 The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land.

    17 And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.

  • Zech 9:4-7
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    83%

    4 See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.

    5 Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.

    6 And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.

    7 And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.

  • Zeph 2:4-5
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    4 For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.

    5 Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you.

  • Amos 1:5-7
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    5 And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken, and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven, and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the Lord.

    6 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.

    7 And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses:

  • Jer 47:4-5
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    78%

    4 Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.

    5 The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

  • Josh 13:3
    77%

    3 From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;

  • 1 Sam 5:6-7
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    6 But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.

    7 And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.

  • Zeph 1:2-4
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    2 I will take away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

    3 I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

    4 And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,

  • Jer 25:20
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    20 And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

  • Ezek 29:8
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    8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.

  • Jer 47:1
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    1 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines, before Pharaoh's attack on Gaza.

  • Ezek 25:7
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    7 For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Mic 5:10-11
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    73%

    10 I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:

    11 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • 1 Sam 17:46
    73%

    46 This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;

  • Ezek 21:3
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    3 And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.

  • 2 Kgs 18:8
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    8 He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

  • Ezek 15:8
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    8 And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.

  • Amos 2:3
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    3 And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

  • Amos 1:9-10
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    72%

    9 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.

    10 And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    72%

    7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Ezek 5:8
    72%

    8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you before the eyes of the nations.

  • 1 Sam 7:13
    71%

    13 So the Philistines were overcome, and did not come into the country of Israel again: and all the days of Samuel the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines.

  • Ezek 16:27
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    27 Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.

  • Mic 5:14
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    14 And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

  • Josh 15:46
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    46 From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.

  • Judg 1:18
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    18 Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit.

  • Zech 11:6
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    6 For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

  • Amos 9:8
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    8 See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.

  • Isa 9:12
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    12 Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Exod 23:31
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    31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

  • Zeph 3:6
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    6 I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.

  • Isa 10:26
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    26 And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.

  • Isa 10:11
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    11 So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

  • Ezek 6:14
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    14 And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.