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 9:26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
• Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
• Isa 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
• 2 Chr 7:13–14If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
• Exod 9:4And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.
• Exod 10:23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
• Joel 2:23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
• Lev 26:18–21And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
• Judg 6:37–40Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
• Lev 26:27–28And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
• Jas 5:17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
• Deut 11:17And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
• Lev 26:23–24And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
• 1 Kgs 8:35–36When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
• Rev 11:6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
• Jer 14:4Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
• Joel 1:10–18The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
• Hag 1:10–11Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
• Deut 28:23–24And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
• Jer 5:24–25Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
• Exod 8:22And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
• Zech 14:17And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
• John 4:35Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

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