Amos 6:7 Cross References

Amos 6:7

7: Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly, all your revelry will end.

He is saying, `Jeroboam will soon be killed and the people of Israel will be sent away into exile.'"

Don't go to worship the idols of Bethel, Gilgal, or Beersheba. For the people of Gilgal will be dragged off into exile, and the people of Bethel will come to nothing."

About noontime, as Ben-hadad and the thirty-two allied kings were still in their tents getting drunk,
the troops of the provincial commanders marched out of the city. As they approached, Ben-hadad's scouts reported to him, "Some troops are coming from Samaria."
"Take them alive," Ben-hadad commanded, "whether they have come for peace or for war."
But by now Ahab's provincial commanders had led the army out to fight.
Each Israelite soldier killed his Aramean opponent, and suddenly the entire Aramean army panicked and fled. The Israelites chased them, but King Ben-hadad and a few others escaped on horses.

They drank toasts from them to honor their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
At that very moment they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king's palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,
and his face turned pale with fear. Such terror gripped him that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way beneath him.

So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther's banquet.
And while they were drinking wine that day, the king again asked her, "Tell me what you want, Queen Esther. What is your request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!"

Then Haman added, "And that's not all! Queen Esther invited only me and the king himself to the banquet she prepared for us. And she has invited me to dine with her and the king again tomorrow!"
Then he added, "But all this is meaningless as long as I see Mordecai the Jew just sitting there at the palace gate."
So Haman's wife, Zeresh, and all his friends suggested, "Set up a gallows that stands seventy-five feet tall, and in the morning ask the king to hang Mordecai on it. When this is done, you can go on your merry way to the banquet with the king." This pleased Haman immensely, and he ordered the gallows set up.

You will have sons and daughters, but you will not keep them, for they will be led away into captivity.

But this is what the LORD says: Because you have refused to listen, your wife will become a prostitute in this city, and your sons and daughters will be killed. Your land will be divided up, and you yourself will die in a foreign land. And the people of Israel will certainly become captives in exile, far from their homeland."

His enemies, tangled up like thorns, staggering like drunks, will be burned like dry straw in a field.

If Your Majesty is pleased with me and wants to grant my request, please come with Haman tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for you. Then tomorrow I will explain what this is all about."

So I will send you into exile, to a land east of Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is God Almighty.

My mind reels; my heart races. The sleep I once enjoyed at night is now a faint memory. I lie awake, trembling.

They will be brutally killed by the sword or sent away as captives to all the nations of the world. And Jerusalem will be conquered and trampled down by the Gentiles until the age of the Gentiles comes to an end.

In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king returned from the palace garden. "Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?" the king roared. And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman's face, signaling his doom.
Then Harbona, one of the king's eunuchs, said, "Haman has set up a gallows that stands seventy-five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to hang Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.Then hang Haman on it!" the king ordered.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had set up for Mordecai, and the king's anger was pacified.

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