Cross references

Amos 5:3

This is what the Lord GOD says:

“The city that marches out a thousand strong

will have but a hundred left,

and the one that marches out a hundred strong

will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

Amos 5:3 BSB

Amos 5:3 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 6:13 (4 votes) and Isaiah 10:22 (4 votes). 3 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Deuteronomy 4 to Romans 9.

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Which verses does Amos 5:3 point to?

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  1. And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

  2. Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

  3. But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

  4. Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

  5. Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

  6. You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

  7. Isaiah 1:93 votes

    Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

  8. Amos 6:92 votes

    And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

Which verses point to Amos 5:3?

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