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Amos 2 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:1 - These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:2 - And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 - These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:5 - And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:6 - These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:8 - By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:11 - And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:12 - But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:13 - See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:14 - And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:15 - And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:16 - And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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Amos Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras