Amos 2:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 24:17 : 17 I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.
  • Jer 48:7 : 7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.
  • Jer 48:25 : 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.
  • Ps 2:10 : 10 So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth.
  • Isa 40:23 : 23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

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  • Amos 2:1-2
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    81%

    1 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

    2 And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:

  • Amos 2:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

    5 And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

  • Mic 5:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    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:

  • Zeph 1:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    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,

  • Hos 6:5
    76%

    5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

  • Ezek 25:11
    76%

    11 And I will be the judge of Moab; and they will see that I am the Lord.

  • Jer 1:15-16
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    76%

    15 For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.

    16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • Jer 44:11
    76%

    11 So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah;

  • Jer 13:14
    76%

    14 I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

  • Amos 1:14-15
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    76%

    14 And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a storm in the day of the great wind:

    15 And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
    76%

    16 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;

  • Zech 11:6
    75%

    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.

  • Hos 5:10
    75%

    10 The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.

  • Ezek 21:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    4 Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north:

  • Ezek 7:27
    75%

    27 The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Jer 22:7
    75%

    7 And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Jer 48:2
    74%

    2 The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

  • Amos 9:1
    74%

    1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.

  • Nah 2:13
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    13 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

  • Jer 19:7
    74%

    7 I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

  • Jer 49:38
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    38 I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.

  • Jer 34:22
    74%

    22 See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.

  • Jer 25:37
    74%

    37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Ezek 25:7
    74%

    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.

  • Amos 3:15
    74%

    15 And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.

  • Jer 13:9
    74%

    9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Isa 14:22
    74%

    22 For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

  • Jer 12:17
    74%

    17 But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.

  • Jer 21:11
    74%

    11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;

  • Zeph 3:6
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 15:3
    73%

    3 And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.

  • Jer 48:15
    73%

    15 He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.

  • Jer 48:25
    73%

    25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.

  • Lam 2:2
    73%

    2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

  • Ezek 21:31
    73%

    31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Nah 1:12
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    12 This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

  • Nah 1:14
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    14 The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

  • Jer 11:22
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    22 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:

  • 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.

  • Jer 21:14
    73%

    14 I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.

  • Amos 1:12
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    12 And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.

  • Jer 8:13
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    13 I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.