Amos 2:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

¹ And the sons of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. ² And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. ³ And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people, because they were many. And Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel.
⁴ And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is all around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was King of Moab at that time.
⁵ And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the face of the earth and they abide opposite me. ⁶ Therefore, I beseech you, come now, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I will prevail, that we may kill* them and that I may drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed and he whom you curse is cursed.
⁷ And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand and they came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak. ⁸ And he said to them, Lodge here this night and I will bring you* word again, as Jehovah will speak to me. And the rulers of Moab abode with Balaam.
⁹ And God came to Balaam and said, What men are these with you? ¹⁰ And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, King of Moab, has sent to me, saying, ¹¹ Behold, the people came out of Egypt, it covers the face of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to fight against them and will drive them out. ¹² And God said to Balaam, You will not go with them. You will not curse the people, for they are blessed.
¹³ And Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the rulers of Balak, Get into your* land, for Jehovah refuses to give me leave to go with you*. ¹⁴ And the rulers of Moab rose up and they went to Balak and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.
¹⁵ And Balak sent yet again rulers, more and more honorable than they. ¹⁶ And they came to Balaam and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, I beseech you, let nothing hinder you from coming to me. ¹⁷ For I will promote you to very great honor and whatever you say to me I will do. Therefore, I beseech you, come curse this people for me.
¹⁸ And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more. ¹⁹ Now therefore, I beseech you*, abide also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak to me more.
²⁰ And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, go with them, but only the word which I speak to you, that will you do. ²¹ And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the rulers of Moab.
²² And God's anger was kindled because he went and the messenger of Jehovah placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his donkey and his two servants were with him. ²³ And the donkey saw the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. And Balaam killed* the donkey, to turn her into the way.
²⁴ Then the messenger of Jehovah stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side and a wall on that side. ²⁵ And the donkey saw the messenger of Jehovah and she thrust herself to the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. And he killed* her again.

⁴ because they met you* not with bread and with water on the way, when you* came forth out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵ Nevertheless Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.

⁹ So the King of Israel went and the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And they made a circuit of seven days' journey and there was no water for the army, nor for the beasts that followed them.

²⁶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too hard for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not. ²⁷ Then he took his eldest son who should have reigned instead of him and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel and they departed from him and returned to their own land.

⁴ They have said, Come and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
⁵ Because they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against you: ⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites, ⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre,

³ The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

¹⁴ And they will fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west. Together they will despoil the sons of the east. They will put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon will obey them.

¹ The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. ² They have gone up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. On all their heads is baldness. Every beard is cut off. ³ In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth. On their housetops and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. ⁴ And Heshbon cries out and Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. His soul trembles within him.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab. Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up with weeping by the ascent of Luhith. For they raise up a cry of destruction in the way of Horonaim. ⁶ For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, for the grass is withered away. The tender grass fails. There is no green thing.
⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gotten and what they have laid up, they will carry away over the brook of the willows. ⁸ For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab, the wailing of it to Eglaim and the wailing of it to Beer-elim. ⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of blood. For I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.

¹⁰ For the hand of Jehovah will rest on this mountain.
And Moab will be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

¹ Of Moab. Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is taken. The fortress is put to shame and broken down. ² The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, O madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.
³ The sound of a cry from Horonaim: Desolation and great destruction! ⁴ Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. ⁵ For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping, for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. ⁶ Flee, save your* lives and be like the heath in the wilderness.
⁷ For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. And Chemosh will go forth into captivity, his priests and his rulers together. ⁸ And the destroyer will come upon every city and no city will escape. The valley also will perish and the plain will be destroyed, as Jehovah has spoken.
⁹ Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away. And her cities will become a desolation, without any to dwell in it. ¹⁰ Cursed be he who does the work of Jehovah negligently and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
¹¹ Moab has been at ease from his youth and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him and his scent is not changed.
¹² Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will send to him those who pour off and they will pour him off. And they will empty his vessels and smash their jugs. ¹³ And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
¹⁴ How can you* say, We are mighty men and valiant men for the war? ¹⁵ Moab is laid waste and they have gone up into his cities. And his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
¹⁶ The calamity of Moab is near to come and his affliction hastens fast. ¹⁷ All you* who are all around him, sympathize with him and all you* who know his name, say, How the strong staff has broken, the beautiful rod!
¹⁸ O you daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory and sit in thirst, for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed your strongholds. ¹⁹ O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask he who flees and she who escapes. Say, What has been done? ²⁰ Moab is put to shame, for it is broken down. Wail and cry, tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
²¹ And judgment has come upon the plain country: upon Holon and upon Jahzah and upon Mephaath, ²² and upon Dibon and upon Nebo and upon Beth-diblathaim, ²³ and upon Kiriathaim and upon Beth-gamul and upon Beth-meon, ²⁴ and upon Kerioth and upon Bozrah and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. ²⁵ The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken, says Jehovah.
²⁶ You* make him drunken, for he magnified himself against Jehovah. And Moab will wallow in his vomit and he also will be a laughing-stock.
²⁷ For was not Israel a laughing-stock to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you wag the head.
²⁸ O you* inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities and dwell in the rock and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
²⁹ We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud, his loftiness and his pride and his arrogance and the haughtiness of his heart. ³⁰ I know his wrath, says Jehovah, that it is nothing. His boastings have worked nothing.
³¹ Therefore I will wail for Moab, yes, I will cry out for all Moab. For they will mourn the men of Kir-heres. ³² With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen upon your summer fruits and upon your vintage. ³³ And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses. None will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting. ³⁴ From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also will become desolate.
³⁵ Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Jehovah, he who offers in the high place and he who burns incense to his gods.
³⁶ Therefore my heart roars for Moab like pipes and my heart roars like pipes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished. ³⁷ For every head is bald and every beard clipped. Upon all the hands are cuttings and upon the loins sackcloth. ³⁸ On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets of it, there is lamentation everywhere.
For I have broken Moab like a vessel of which none delights, says Jehovah. ³⁹ How it is broken down! How they do wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So Moab will become a laughing-stock and a horror to all who are all around him.
⁴⁰ For Jehovah says thus: Behold, he will fly as an eagle and will spread out his wings against Moab. ⁴¹ Kerioth is taken and the strongholds are seized and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. ⁴² And Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Jehovah.
⁴³ Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says Jehovah. ⁴⁴ He who flees from the fear will fall into the pit and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare. For I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says Jehovah. ⁴⁵ Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon. For a fire has gone forth out of Heshbon and a flame from the midst of Sihon and has devoured the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
⁴⁶ Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone, for your sons are taken away captive and your daughters into captivity. ⁴⁷ Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

⁸ The lord Jehovah says thus: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations, ⁹ therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country–Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim–

³ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

⁶ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom.

⁹ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they delivered up the whole people to Edom and did not remember the brotherly covenant.

¹¹ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually and he kept his wrath forever.

¹³ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

⁴ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah and have not kept his statutes and their lies have made them go-astray, according to which their fathers walked.

⁶ Jehovah says thus: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver and a needy man for a pair of shoes–

⁵ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that you* may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border. ⁹ Therefore as I live, says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab will be as Sodom and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits and a everlasting desolation. The residue of my people will make a prey of them and the remnant of my nation will inherit them.