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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Amo 6:12 — Shall horses run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
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Isa 48:4 |
Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; |
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Jer 5:3 |
O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. |
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Jer 6:29 |
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. |
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Jer 6:30 |
Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. |
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Zec 7:11 |
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. |
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Zec 7:12 |
Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. |
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Amo 5:7 |
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, |
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Amo 5:11 |
Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. |
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Amo 5:12 |
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right]. |
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1Ki 21:7 |
And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. |
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1Ki 21:8 |
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed [them] with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that [were] in his city, dwelling with Naboth. |
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1Ki 21:9 |
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: |
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1Ki 21:10 |
And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And [then] carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. |
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1Ki 21:11 |
And the men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them. |
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1Ki 21:12 |
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. |
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1Ki 21:13 |
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. |
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Psa 94:20 |
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? |
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Psa 94:21 |
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. |
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Isa 59:13 |
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. |
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Isa 59:14 |
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. |
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Hsa 10:4 |
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. |
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Hsa 10:13 |
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. |
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Mic 7:3 |
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. |
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Hab 1:3 |
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention. |
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Hab 1:4 |
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. |
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Act 7:51 |
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye. |
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Act 7:52 |
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Amos 6:12," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Amo/6/12.html>.
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