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Amos 3

Amos 3:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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You onlyy have I known
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
of all the families
mishpachah (Hebrew #4940)
a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extens. a tribe or people
KJV usage: family, kind(-red).
Pronounce: mish-paw-khaw'
Origin: from 8192 (compare 8198)
of the earth
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
: therefore I will τpunish
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
you for all your iniquities
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
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Psa. 147:20• 20He dealt not thus with any nation;{HR}And [his] judgments, they knew them not.{HR}Praise ye Jah. (Psa. 147:20)
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visit upon.

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Ex. 19:5‑6• 5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine,
 6{i}and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.{/i} (Ex. 19:5‑6)
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Deut. 7:6• 6{i}For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.{/i} (Deut. 7:6)
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Deut. 10:15• 15{i}Only, Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.{/i} (Deut. 10:15)
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Deut. 26:18• 18and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; (Deut. 26:18)
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Deut. 32:9• 9{i}For Jehovah's portion is his people;{HR}Jacob the lot of his inheritance.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:9)
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Psa. 147:19• 19He showeth his word to Jacob,{HR}His statutes and his judgments to Israel. (Psa. 147:19)
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Isa. 63:19• 19We have become of old [like those] thou never ruledst, those not called by thy name. (Isa. 63:19)
all.
Gen. 10:32• 32These [are the] families of Noah's sons, after their generations, in their nations; and by these were separated the nations in the earth after the flood. (Gen. 10:32)
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Jer. 1:15• 15For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. (Jer. 1:15)
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Jer. 10:25• 25{i}Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.{/i} (Jer. 10:25)
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Nah. 3:4• 4Because of the multitudes of the whoredoms of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. (Nah. 3:4)
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Zech. 14:17‑18• 17And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
 18And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith Jehovah will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. (Zech. 14:17‑18)
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Acts 17:26• 26And he made of one [blood] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation, (Acts 17:26)
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Ezek. 9:6• 6slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. (Ezek. 9:6)
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Ezek. 20:36‑38• 36Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 37And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
 38and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 20:36‑38)
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Dan. 9:12• 12{i}And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem.{/i} (Dan. 9:12)
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Matt. 11:20‑24• 20{i}Then began he to reproach the cities in which most of his works of power had taken place, because they had not repented.{/i}
 21{i}Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you, had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented in sackcloth and ashes.{/i}
 22{i}But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in judgment-day than for you.{/i}
 23{i}And thou, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades. For if the works of power which have taken place in thee, had taken place in Sodom, it had remained until this day.{/i}
 24{i}But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for [the] land of Sodom in judgment-day than for thee.{/i} (Matt. 11:20‑24)
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Luke 12:47‑48• 47But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself], nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes].
 48But he who knew [it] not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to everyone to whom much is given, much shall be required from him: and to whom [men] have committed much, they will ask from him the more. (Luke 12:47‑48)
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Rom. 2:9• 9tribulation and anguish on every soul of man that worketh out evil, both of Jew first and of Greek; (Rom. 2:9)
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1 Peter 4:17• 17Because the time [is] that judgment begin from the house of God; and if first from us, what [shall be] the end of those that obey not the gospel of God? (1 Peter 4:17)
punish.
Heb. visit upon.
Jer. 9:25• 25Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; (Jer. 9:25)
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Jer. 11:22• 22{i}—therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;{/i} (Jer. 11:22)
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Jer. 13:21• 21What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? (Jer. 13:21)
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Jer. 13•  (Jer. 13)
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Hos. 2:13• 13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, {i}and decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah.{/i} (Hos. 2:13)
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Hos. 8:13• 13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it: Jehovah accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. (Hos. 8:13)
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Hos. 9:9• 9They have gone deep, they are corrupted, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. (Hos. 9:9)
• The measure of relationship is always the measure of responsibility. The nearer one is brought, the stronger are the grounds, and the higher the character, on which one must be conformed to divine claims in obedience. (“Amos 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

W. Kelly Translation

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You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.