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Amos 4:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

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Lev. 26:18‑21,23‑24,27‑28• ¹⁸And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,
¹⁹and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,
²⁰and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
²¹And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins.
²³And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me,
²⁴then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
²⁷And if for this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary unto me,
²⁸then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins. (Lev. 26:18‑21,23‑24,27‑28)

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Deut. 28:23‑24• ²³And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
²⁴Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed. (Deut. 28:23‑24)

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1 Kings 8:35‑36• ³⁵When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;
³⁶then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. (1 Kings 8:35‑36)

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2 Chron. 7:13‑14• ¹³If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
¹⁴and my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land. (2 Chron. 7:13‑14)

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Isa. 5:6• ⁶and I will make it a waste--it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. (Isa. 5:6)

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Jer. 3:3• ³And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed. (Jer. 3:3)

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Jer. 5:24‑25• ²⁴And they say not in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the early and the latter, in its season; who preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of harvest.
²⁵Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good. (Jer. 5:24‑25)

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Jer. 14:4,22• ⁴Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.
²²Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE, Jehovah, our God? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things. (Jer. 14:4,22)

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Hag. 1:10‑11• ¹⁰Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
¹¹And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. (Hag. 1:10‑11)

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Zech. 14:17• ¹⁷And it shall be, that whoso goeth not up of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them shall be no rain. (Zech. 14:17)

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James 5:17• ¹⁷Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months; (James 5:17)

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Rev. 11:6• ⁶These have power to shut the heaven that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth as often as they will with every plague. (Rev. 11:6)

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Joel 2:23• ²³And ye, children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the early rain in due measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the early rain, and the latter rain at the beginning of the season. (Joel 2:23)

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John 4:35• ³⁵Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest. (John 4:35)

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Ex. 8:22• ²²And I will distinguish in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no dog-flies shall be there; that thou mayest know that I Jehovah am in the midst of the land. (Ex. 8:22)

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Ex. 9:4,26• ⁴And Jehovah will distinguish between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that the children of Israel have.
²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. (Ex. 9:4,26)

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Ex. 10:23• ²³they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place, for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. (Ex. 10:23)

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Judg. 6:37‑40• ³⁷behold, I put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor; if dew shall be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said.
³⁸And it was so. And when he rose up early on the morrow, he pressed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowl-full of water.
³⁹And Gideon said to God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once! Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it, I pray thee, be dry upon the fleece only, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
⁴⁰And God did so that night, and it was dry upon the fleece only, but on all the ground there was dew. (Judg. 6:37‑40)

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1 Cor. 4:7• ⁷For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving? (1 Cor. 4:7)

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Joel 1:10‑18• ¹⁰The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
¹¹Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.
¹²The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.
¹³Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
¹⁴Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
¹⁵Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
¹⁶Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
¹⁷The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
¹⁸How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering. (Joel 1:10‑18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.