Cross references

Amos 7:17

Therefore this is what the LORD says:

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,

and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.

Your land will be divided by a measuring line,

and you yourself will die on pagan

soil.

And Israel will surely go into exile,

away from their homeland.’”

Amos 7:17 BSB
  1. a Hebrew unclean

Amos 7:17 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hosea 9:3 (7 votes) and 2 Kings 17:6 (6 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Leviticus 26 to 1 Peter 3.

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Which verses does Amos 7:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Hosea 9:37 votes

    They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

  2. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

  3. Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”

  4. Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

  5. They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

  6. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

  7. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

  8. “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie, this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”

  9. Amos 7:113 votes

    for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

  10. But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste. Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. …

Which verses point to Amos 7:17?

The 10 strongest of 27.