Amos 4:7

God withheld rain selectively, sending it on one city and not another, yet Israel still did not repent. His targeted judgments went unheeded.

Cross-references · 25

• Exod 9:26The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.
• Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
• Isa 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
• 2 Chr 7:13–14If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
• Exod 9:4But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
• Exod 10:23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
• Joel 2:23Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
• Lev 26:18–21And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
• Judg 6:37–40then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
• Lev 26:27–28But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
• Jas 5:17Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
• Deut 11:17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
• Lev 26:23–24And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
• 1 Kgs 8:35–36When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
• Rev 11:6These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
• Jer 14:4The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
• Joel 1:10–18The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
• Hag 1:10–11Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
• Deut 28:23–24The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
• Jer 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
• Jer 5:24–25They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
• Exod 8:22But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.
• Zech 14:17And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.
• John 4:35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

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