The Bible Study Podcast, episode 751. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the

book of Amos with Chapter 3. Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

You may remember that in the last episode in chapter two, we were talking about judgment against Israel.

Well, that theme continues, as I said it might, here with witnesses summoned against Israel.

Hear this word people of Israel. The word the Lord has spoken against you against the whole family

I brought up out of Egypt. You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth, therefore I will

punish you for all your sins. Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so. Does a lion roar in the

thicket when it has no prey?

Does it growl in its den when it has caught nothing? Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the

ground when no bait is there? Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything?

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble.

When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it.

Surely the sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants, the prophets.

The lion has roared, who will not fear?

The sovereign Lord has spoken, Who can but prophesy?

Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashtod and to the fortresses of Egypt. Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria. See the great unrest within her and the opposition among her people. They do not know how to do

right, declares the Lord, who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted. Therefore,

this is what the sovereign Lord says. An enemy will overrun your land, pull down your strongholds,

and plunder your fortresses.

This is what the Lord says.

As a shepherd rescues from the lion's mouth, only two leg bones or a piece of an ear,

so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece

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