1Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto mee, and beholde, he formed grashoppers in the beginning of ye shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was in the latter grouth after the Kings mowing.

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Joel 1:4, Joel 1:4, Amos 8:1, Amos 8:1, Joel 2:25

2And when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I saide, O Lord God, spare, I beseeche thee: who shall raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

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Isaiah 37:4, Ezekiel 11:13, Isaiah 37:4, Ezekiel 11:13, Exodus 10:15

3So the Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 32:36, Deuteronomy 32:36, Jonah 3:10, Jonah 3:10, Hosea 11:8

4Thus also hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and behold, the Lord God called to iudgement by fire, and it deuoured the great deepe, and did eate vp a part.

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Amos 7:1, Isaiah 66:15, Isaiah 66:16, Amos 7:1, Isaiah 66:15

5Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shall raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

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Psalms 85:4, Psalms 85:4, Jeremiah 30:19, Isaiah 10:25, Joel 2:17

6So the Lord repented for this. This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

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Psalms 90:13, Judges 2:18, Judges 10:16, Psalms 135:14, Jeremiah 26:19

7Thus againe he shewed me, and behold, the Lord stoode vpon a wall made by line with a line in his hand.

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2 Kings 21:13, 2 Kings 21:13, Revelation 21:15, Revelation 21:15, Isaiah 28:17

8And the Lord saide vnto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A line. Then said the Lord, Beholde, I wil set a line in the middes of my people Israel, and wil passe by them no more.

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Amos 8:2, Amos 8:2, Lamentations 2:8, Lamentations 2:8, Jeremiah 15:6

9And the hye places of Izhak shalbe desolate, and the temples of Israel shalbe destroyed: and I wil rise against the house of Ieroboam with the sworde.

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2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 15:10, 2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 15:10, Genesis 46:1

10Then Amaziah the Priest of Beth-el sent to Ieroboam King of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the middes of the house of Israel: the lande is not able to beare all his wordes.

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Jeremiah 38:4, Jeremiah 38:4, 1 Kings 12:31, 1 Kings 12:32, 1 Kings 12:31

11For thus Amos saith, Ieroboam shall die by the sworde, and Israel shalbe led away captiue out of their owne land.

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2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:6, Psalms 56:5, Amos 7:9, Amos 6:7

12Also Amaziah sayde vnto Amos, O thou the Seer, goe, flee thou away into the land of Iudah, and there eate thy bread and prophecie there.

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Matthew 8:34, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Corinthians 2:14, Matthew 8:34, 1 Samuel 9:9

13But prophecie no more at Beth-el: for it is the Kings chappel, and it is the Kings court.

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1 Kings 12:32, Amos 2:12, 1 Kings 12:32, Amos 2:12, 1 Kings 12:29

14Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no Prophet, neither was I a prophets sonne, but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of wilde figs.

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Amos 1:1, Amos 1:1, 2 Kings 4:38, Zechariah 13:5, 2 Kings 2:5

15And the Lord tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the Lord said vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

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2 Samuel 7:8, 2 Samuel 7:8, Ezekiel 2:3, Ezekiel 2:4, Ezekiel 2:3

16Now therefore heare thou the word of the Lord. Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, and speake nothing against the house of Izhak.

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Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 20:46, Micah 2:6, Ezekiel 21:2, Micah 2:6

17Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Thy wife shall be an harlot in the citie, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be deuided by line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall surely go into captiuitie forth of his land.

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Hosea 9:3, Hosea 9:3, 2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:6, Jeremiah 28:16