Amos 2:9 Cross References

Amos 2:9

9: "Yet think of all I did for my people! I destroyed the Amorites before my people arrived in the land. The Amorites were as tall as cedar trees and strong as oaks, but I destroyed their fruit and dug out their roots.

Malachi 4:1

  1. The LORD Almighty says, "The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. The arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw on that day. They will be consumed like a tree--roots and all.

Job 18:16

  1. Their roots will dry up, and their branches will wither.

Numbers 13:32

  1. So they spread discouraging reports about the land among the Israelites: "The land we explored will swallow up any who go to live there. All the people we saw were huge.
  2. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. We felt like grasshoppers next to them, and that's what we looked like to them!"

Numbers 13:28

  1. But the people living there are powerful, and their cities and towns are fortified and very large. We also saw the descendants of Anak who are living there!
  2. The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley."

Deuteronomy 2:24

  1. Moses continued, "Then the LORD said, `Now cross the Arnon Gorge! Look, I will help you defeat Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and I will give you his land. Attack him and begin to occupy the land.
  2. Beginning today I will make all people throughout the earth terrified of you. When they hear reports about you, they will tremble with dread and fear.'
  3. "Then from the wilderness of Kedemoth I sent ambassadors to King Sihon of Heshbon with this proposal of peace:
  4. `Let us pass through your land. We will stay on the main road and won't turn off into the fields on either side.
  5. We will pay for every bite of food we eat and all the water we drink. All we want is permission to pass through your land.

Deuteronomy 9:1

  1. "Hear, O Israel! Today you are about to cross the Jordan River to occupy the land belonging to nations much greater and more powerful than you. They live in cities with walls that reach to the sky!
  2. They are strong and tall--descendants of the famous Anakite giants. You've heard the saying, `Who can stand up to the Anakites?'
  3. But the LORD your God will cross over ahead of you like a devouring fire to destroy them. He will subdue them so that you will quickly conquer them and drive them out, just as the LORD has promised.

Genesis 15:16

  1. After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, when the sin of the Amorites has run its course."

Exodus 34:11

  1. Your responsibility is to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then I will surely drive out all those who stand in your way--the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Numbers 21:23

  1. But King Sihon refused to let them cross his land. Instead, he mobilized his entire army and attacked Israel in the wilderness, engaging them in battle at Jahaz.
  2. But the Israelites slaughtered them and occupied their land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They went only as far as the Ammonite border because the boundary of the Ammonites was fortified.
  3. So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages.

Deuteronomy 3:11

  1. (Incidentally, King Og of Bashan was the last of the giant Rephaites. His iron bed was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

Deuteronomy 2:10

  1. (A numerous and powerful race of giants called the Emites had once lived in the area of Ar. They were as tall as the Anakites, another race of giants.
  2. Both the Emites and the Anakites are often referred to as the Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites.

Ezekiel 17:9

  1. "So now the Sovereign LORD asks: Should I let this vine grow and prosper? No! I will pull it out, roots and all! I will cut off its fruit and let its leaves wither and die. I will pull it out easily enough--it won't take a strong arm or a large army to do it.

Joshua 24:8

  1. "Finally, I brought you into the land of the Amorites on the east side of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave you victory over them, and you took possession of their land.
  2. Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, started a war against Israel. He asked Balaam son of Beor to curse you,
  3. but I would not listen to him. Instead, I made Balaam bless you, and so I rescued you from Balak.
  4. "When you crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho, the men of Jericho fought against you. There were also many others who fought you, including the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I gave you victory over them.
  5. And I sent hornets ahead of you to drive out the two kings of the Amorites. It was not your swords or bows that brought you victory.

Exodus 3:8

  1. So I have come to rescue them from the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own good and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey--the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites live.

Joshua 10:12

  1. On the day the LORD gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the LORD in front of all the people of Israel. He said, "Let the sun stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Aijalon."

Judges 11:21

  1. But the LORD, the God of Israel, gave his people victory over King Sihon. So Israel took control of all the land of the Amorites, who lived in that region,
  2. from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
  3. "So you see, it was the LORD, the God of Israel, who took away the land from the Amorites and gave it to Israel. Why, then, should we give it to you?

Deuteronomy 1:28

  1. How can we go on? Our scouts have demoralized us with their report. They say that the people of the land are taller and more powerful than we are, and that the walls of their towns rise high into the sky! They have even seen giants there--the descendants of Anak!'

Psalms 135:10

  1. He struck down great nations and slaughtered mighty kings--
  2. Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
  3. He gave their land as an inheritance, a special possession to his people Israel.

Psalms 136:17

  1. Give thanks to him who struck down mighty kings. His faithful love endures forever.
  2. He killed powerful kings--His faithful love endures forever.
  3. Sihon king of the Amorites, His faithful love endures forever.
  4. and Og king of Bashan. His faithful love endures forever.
  5. God gave the land of these kings as an inheritance--His faithful love endures forever.

2 Samuel 23:16

  1. So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water from the well, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out before the LORD.
  2. "The LORD forbid that I should drink this!" he exclaimed. "This water is as precious as the blood of these men who risked their lives to bring it to me." So David did not drink it. This is an example of the exploits of the Three.
  3. Abishai son of Zeruiah, the brother of Joab, was the leader of the Thirty. He once used his spear to kill three hundred enemy warriors in a single battle. It was by such feats that he became as famous as the Three.
  4. Abishai was the most famous of the Thirty and was their commander, though he was not one of the Three.
  5. There was also Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant warrior from Kabzeel. He did many heroic deeds, which included killing two of Moab's mightiest warriors. Another time he chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed it.

Joshua 11:21

  1. During this period, Joshua destroyed all the descendants of Anak, who lived in the hill country of Hebron, Debir, Anab, and the entire hill country of Judah and Israel. He killed them all and completely destroyed their towns.
  2. Not one was left in all the land of Israel, though some still remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

Nehemiah 9:22

  1. "Then you helped our ancestors conquer great kingdoms and many nations, and you placed your people in every corner of the land. They completely took over the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
  2. You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.
  3. They went in and took possession of the land. You subdued whole nations before them. Even the kings and the Canaanites, who inhabited the land, were powerless! Your people could deal with them as they pleased.

Joshua 3:10

  1. Today you will know that the living God is among you. He will surely drive out the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Isaiah 5:24

  1. Therefore, they will all disappear like burning straw. Their roots will rot and their flowers wither, for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty. They have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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