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Amos 3:1 open_in_new
whole family
The language here, and the expression "house of Jacob," (Amos 3:13) evidently gives the prophecy a wider application than to "Israel," the ten-tribe northern kingdom, though the judgment was, in the event, executed first upon the northern kingdom. (2 Kings 17:18-23).
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Amos 3:2 open_in_new
therefore
It is noteworthy that Jehovah's controversy with the Gentile cities which hated Israel is brief: "I will send a fire." But Israel had been brought into the place of privilege and so of responsibility, and the Lord's indictment is detailed and unsparing.
Compare (Matthew 11:23); (Luke 12:47); (Luke 12:48).