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Amos 4:9 Cross-References
Explore 16 cross-references for Amos 4:9 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Amos chapter 4 verse 9 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. when: or, the multitude of your gardens, etc. did the palmerworm”
Amos 4:9 (KJV)
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Commentary on Amos 4:9
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew (הִכֵּיתִי אֶתְכֶם בַּשִּׁדָּפוֹן וּבַיֵּרָקוֹן, hikketi etkhem bashshiddaphon uvayeraqon)—God announces agricultural judgment using two Hebrew terms: shiddaphon (שִׁדָּפוֹן, scorching east wind that withers crops) and yeraqon (יֵרָקוֹן, literally "yellowness," blight or mildew). These covenant curses from Deuteronomy 28:22 devastated Israel's staple crops. The phrase when your gardens and your vineyards... increased, the palmerworm devoured them describes the cruel irony: just as crops multiplied, locust swarms (gazam, גָּזָם, a cutting locust speci...
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Cross-References for Amos 4:9
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“and with fever”
“mildew”
“the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left”
“And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities”
“he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold”
“the great locust”
“don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them”
“if there be pestilence”
“and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark”
“and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh”