Amos 4:7 Cross References
Amos 4:7
7: "I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
Exodus 9:26
- The only spot in all Egypt without hail that day was the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived.
Jeremiah 3:3
- That is why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a prostitute and are completely unashamed.
Isaiah 5:6
- I will make it a wild place. I will not prune the vines or hoe the ground. I will let it be overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no more rain on it."
Exodus 9:4
- But the LORD will again make a distinction between the property of the Israelites and that of the Egyptians. Not a single one of Israel's livestock will die!'"
James 5:17
- Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years!
Exodus 10:23
- During all that time the people scarcely moved, for they could not see. But there was light as usual where the people of Israel lived.
1 Kings 8:35
- "If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and then they pray toward this Temple and confess your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them,
- then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to do what is right, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.
Leviticus 26:27
- "If after this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward me,
- then I will give full vent to my hostility. I will punish you seven times over for your sins.
Deuteronomy 11:17
- If you do, the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and your harvests will fail. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is now giving you.
Jeremiah 5:24
- They do not say from the heart, `Let us live in awe of the LORD our God, for he gives us rain each spring and fall, assuring us of plentiful harvests.'
- Your wickedness has deprived you of these wonderful blessings. Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.
Deuteronomy 28:23
- The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.
- The LORD will turn your rain into sand and dust, and it will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.
2 Chronicles 7:13
- At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or I might command locusts to devour your crops, or I might send plagues among you.
- Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land.
Haggai 1:10
- That is why the heavens have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
- I have called for a drought on your fields and hills--a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olives and all your other crops, a drought to starve both you and your cattle and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get."
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.
Jeremiah 14:4
- The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are afraid; they, too, cover their heads.
Joel 2:23
- Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the LORD your God! For the rains he sends are an expression of his grace. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring.
Exodus 8:22
- But it will be very different in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the LORD and that I have power even in the heart of your land.
Leviticus 26:18
- "And if, in spite of this, you still disobey me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
- I will break down your arrogant spirit by making the skies above as unyielding as iron and the earth beneath as hard as bronze.
- All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.
- "If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins.
Jeremiah 14:22
- Can any of the foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, it comes from you, the LORD our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.
Joel 1:10
- The fields are ruined and empty of crops. The grain, the wine, and the olive oil are gone.
- Despair, all you farmers! Wail, all you vine growers! Weep, because the wheat and barley--yes, all the field crops--are ruined.
- The grapevines and the fig trees have all withered. The pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees--yes, all the fruit trees--have dried up. All joy has dried up with them.
- Dress yourselves in sackcloth, you priests! Wail, you who serve before the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! There is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of your God.
- Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people into the Temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to him there.
Judges 6:37
- prove it to me in this way. I will put some wool on the threshing floor tonight. If the fleece is wet with dew in the morning but the ground is dry, then I will know that you are going to help me rescue Israel as you promised."
- And it happened just that way. When Gideon got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out a whole bowlful of water.
- Then Gideon said to God, "Please don't be angry with me, but let me make one more request. This time let the fleece remain dry while the ground around it is wet with dew."
- So that night God did as Gideon asked. The fleece was dry in the morning, but the ground was covered with dew.
Leviticus 26:23
- "And if you fail to learn a lesson from this and continue your hostility toward me,
- then I myself will be hostile toward you, and I will personally strike you seven times over for your sins.
Revelation 11:6
- They have power to shut the skies so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to send every kind of plague upon the earth as often as they wish.
John 4:35
- Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us and are ready now for the harvest.
1 Corinthians 4:7
- What makes you better than anyone else? What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?