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, there was no hail.
• Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead. You refused to be ashamed.
• Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
• 2 Chr 7:13–14“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
• Exod 9:4Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”
• Exod 10:23They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
• Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
• Lev 26:18–21“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
• Judg 6:37–40behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
• Lev 26:27–28“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;
• Jas 5:17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
• Deut 11:17and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
• Lev 26:23–24“‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;
• 1 Kgs 8:35–36“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
• Rev 11:6These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
• Jer 14:4Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land. The plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.
• Joel 1:10–18The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
• Hag 1:10–11Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
• Deut 28:23–24Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
• Jer 5:24–25Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
• Exod 8:22I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.
• Zech 14:17It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.
• John 4:35Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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