Bible Reading for June 28


2Kings 14
[26] For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter:
for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
[27] And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from
under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
[28] Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his
might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which
belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
[29] And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel;
and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead. Amos 1
[1] The words of Amos, who was among the herdman of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
[2] And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of
Carmel shall wither.
[3] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have
threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: [4] But I will send a
fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
[5] I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from
the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:
and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
[6] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away
captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: [7] But I will
send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
[8] And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the
sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the
remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD. [9] Thus saith
the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity
to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant: [10] But I will send a
fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
[11] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his
brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear
perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
[12] But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
[13] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of
Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because
they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge
their border: [14] But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it
shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with
a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
[15] And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,
saith the LORD.

Amos 2
[1] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I
will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of
the king of Edom into lime:
[2] But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of
Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound
of the trumpet:
[3] And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all
the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. [4] Thus saith the LORD; For
three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the
punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and
have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after
the which their fathers have walked: [5] But I will send a fire upon Judah,
and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
[6] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the
righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; [7] That pant after
the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of
the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to
profane my holy name:
[8] And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every
altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
[9] Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the
height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his
fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
[10] Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years
through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. [11] And I
raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites.
Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. [12] But ye
gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying,
Prophesy not.
[13] Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
[14] Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall
not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: [15]
Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot
shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver
himself.
[16] And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in
that day, saith the LORD.

Amos 3
[1] Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of
Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt,
saying, [2] You only have I known of all the families of the earth:
therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. [3] Can two walk
together, except they be agreed? [4] Will a lion roar in the forest, when
he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken
nothing? [5] Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for
him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at
all? [6] Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be
afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? [7]
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his
servants the prophets.
[8] The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who
can but prophesy?
[9] Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of
Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and
behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the
midst thereof. [10] For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who
store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
[11] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even
round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and
thy palaces shall be spoiled.
[12] Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the
lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be
taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in
a couch. [13] Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord
GOD, the God of hosts,
[14] That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon
him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar
shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
[15] And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the
houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith
the LORD.

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