Amos 3:2 Cross References
Amos 3:2
2: "From among all the families on the earth, I chose you alone. That is why I must punish you for all your sins."
Exodus 19:5
- Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
- And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."
Deuteronomy 7:6
- For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
1 Peter 4:17
- For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin first among God's own children. And if even we Christians must be judged, what terrible fate awaits those who have never believed God's Good News?
Deuteronomy 10:15
- Yet the LORD chose your ancestors as the objects of his love. And he chose you, their descendants, above every other nation, as is evident today.
Ezekiel 20:36
- I will judge you there just as I did your ancestors in the wilderness after bringing them out of Egypt, says the Sovereign LORD.
- I will count you carefully and hold you to the terms of the covenant.
- I will purge you of all those who rebel and sin against me. I will bring them out of the countries where they are in exile, but they will never enter the land of Israel. And when that happens, you will know that I am the LORD.
Romans 2:9
- There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on sinning--for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.
Daniel 9:12
- You have done exactly what you warned you would do against us and our rulers. Never in all history has there been a disaster like the one that happened in Jerusalem.
Deuteronomy 26:18
- The LORD has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands.
Genesis 10:32
- These are the families that came from Noah's sons, listed nation by nation according to their lines of descent. The earth was populated with the people of these nations after the Flood.
Jeremiah 1:15
- Listen! I am calling the armies of the kingdoms of the north to come to Jerusalem. They will set their thrones at the gates of the city. They will attack its walls and all the other towns of Judah.
Jeremiah 9:25
- "A time is coming," says the LORD, "when I will punish all those who are circumcised in body but not in spirit--
Jeremiah 11:22
- So this is what the LORD Almighty says about them: "I will punish them! Their young men will die in battle, and their little boys and girls will starve.
Matthew 11:20
- Then Jesus began to denounce the cities where he had done most of his miracles, because they hadn't turned from their sins and turned to God.
- "What horrors await you, Korazin and Bethsaida! For if the miracles I did in you had been done in wicked Tyre and Sidon, their people would have sat in deep repentance long ago, clothed in sackcloth and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse.
- I assure you, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on the judgment day than you!
- And you people of Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to the place of the dead. For if the miracles I did for you had been done in Sodom, it would still be here today.
- I assure you, Sodom will be better off on the judgment day than you."
Zechariah 14:17
- And any nation anywhere in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, will have no rain.
- And if the people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the LORD will punish them with the same plague that he sends on the other nations who refuse to go.
Jeremiah 14:10
- So the LORD replies to his people, "You love to wander far from me and do not follow in my paths. Now I will no longer accept you as my people. I will remember all your wickedness and will punish you for your sins."
Jeremiah 13:21
- How will you feel when the LORD sets your foreign allies over you as rulers? You will writhe in pain like a woman giving birth!
Deuteronomy 32:9
- For the people of Israel belong to the LORD; Jacob is his special possession.
Jeremiah 10:25
- Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to recognize you--on nations that do not call upon your name. For they have utterly devoured your people Israel, making the land a desolate wilderness.
Isaiah 63:19
- LORD, why do you treat us as though we never belonged to you? Why do you act as though we had never been known as your people?
Psalms 147:19
- He has revealed his words to Jacob, his principles and laws to Israel.
Ezekiel 9:6
- Kill them all--old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders.
Luke 12:47
- The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it.
- "But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given.
Acts 17:26
- From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand which should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.
Hosea 9:9
- The things my people do are as depraved as what they did in Gibeah long ago. God will not forget. He will surely punish them for their sins.
Hosea 8:13
- The people of Israel love their rituals of sacrifice, but to me their sacrifices are all meaningless! I will call my people to account for their sins, and I will punish them. They will go back down to Egypt.
Hosea 2:13
- I will punish her for all the times she deserted me, when she burned incense to her images of Baal, put on her earrings and jewels, and went out looking for her lovers," says the LORD.
Nahum 3:4
- All this because Nineveh, the beautiful and faithless city, mistress of deadly charms, enticed the nations with her beauty. She taught them all to worship her false gods, enchanting people everywhere.