Amos 9:1

In the fifth vision Amos sees the Lord by the altar commanding its destruction so that no one escapes. God's judgment now strikes the very center of their false worship.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 68:21But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
• John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
• Isa 6:3–4One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
• Amos 3:14“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.
• Hab 3:13You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
• Rev 1:17When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
• Isa 6:1In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
• Ezek 1:28As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
• John 1:32John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
• Ezek 10:4Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.
• Isa 30:16but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift”; therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
• 2 Chr 18:18Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
• Zech 11:1–2Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
• Amos 2:14–15Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
• Jer 48:44“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.
• Zeph 2:14Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
• Ezek 9:2Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
• Acts 26:13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
• Isa 24:17–18Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth.

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