Amos 7:2-6
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[2] It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." [3] Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh. [4] Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. [5] Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small." [6] Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageBethel was a major sanctuary in the northern kingdom of Israel, located north of Jerusalem near the border with Benjamin. Though not named in Amos 7:2–6 itself, it frames Amos’s ministry to Israel, whose survival depends entirely on the Lord’s merciful restraint of judgment.
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Amos 7:2-6 mentions Bethel.
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