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Amos Chapter 4

Reproof of Israel for oppression and idolatry


4:1 Hear this word, y’all cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring in, and let us drink.
4:2 Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
Hebrew pronunciation: [ʾăḏōnāy], lit. transl. My Lords, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty.For more info click here
YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
  has sworn by His holiness, that, look, the days are coming, that He will carry you away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.
4:3 And y’all shall go out [at] the breaches, each woman before her; and y’all shall throw down into the high fortress, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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4:4 Come to Bethelבֵּית אֵל
romanized: Bēṯ ‘Ēl, “House of El” or “House of God” at first called changed by Jacob/Israel click here
, and transgress; [at] Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes for three years:
4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and call out and proclaim the free offerings: Because so you love [to do], O y’all sons of Israel, says Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
Hebrew pronunciation: [ʾăḏōnāy], lit. transl. My Lords, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here
YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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Also for Israel’s incorrigibility


4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet y’all haven’t returned to Me, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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4:7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when [it was] yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city: one piece was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rained dried ip.
4:8 So two or three cities wandered to one city, to drink water; but they weren’t satisfied: yet have y’all not returned to
Me, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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4:9 I have struck you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees are
devoured by the locust nymphs: yet have y’all not returned to Me, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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4:10 I have sent a pestilence
among you after the manner of Egypt: I have killed your young men with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet y’all haven’t returned to Me, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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4:11 I have overthrown some of you, like Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and y’all were as a poker plucked out of the burning: yet y’all
haven’t returned to Me, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
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4:12 So will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
, O Israel.
4:13 For, look, He that formed the mountains, and created the wind, and declared to man what is His thought, that makes the dawn darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
, The El Haiאלהי
“Living El” (EL=God) For more info click here
of hosts, is his name.

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