Amos 3:2 ““Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I…”

Amos 3:2

“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

World English Bible

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

American Standard Version

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

Geneva Bible 1599

You onely haue I knowen of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visite you for all your iniquities.

Darby Translation

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

Young's Literal Translation

Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.

Bible in Basic English

You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.

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Cross references

“only”

Deuteronomy 7:6 Deuteronomy 10:15 Deuteronomy 32:9 Deuteronomy 26:18 Psalm 147:19 Isaiah 63:19

Deuteronomy 7:6 · BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 10:15 · BSB

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

Deuteronomy 32:9 · BSB

But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

Deuteronomy 26:18 · BSB

And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

Psalm 147:19 · BSB

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.

Isaiah 63:19 · BSB

We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

“all”

Genesis 10:32 Jeremiah 1:15 Jeremiah 10:25 Nahum 3:4 Acts 17:26 Zechariah 14:17

Genesis 10:32 · BSB

All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

Jeremiah 1:15 · BSB

For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls…

Jeremiah 10:25 · BSB

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homel…

Nahum 3:4 · BSB

because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

Acts 17:26 · BSB

From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

Zechariah 14:17 · BSB

And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.

“therefore”

1 Peter 4:17 Ezekiel 9:6 Ezekiel 20:36–38 Daniel 9:12 Matthew 11:20–24 Romans 2:9

1 Peter 4:17 · BSB

For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

Ezekiel 9:6 · BSB

Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

Ezekiel 20:36–38 · BSB

Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.

Daniel 9:12 · BSB

You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

Matthew 11:20–24 · BSB

Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.

Romans 2:9 · BSB

There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

“punish”

Jeremiah 9:25 Jeremiah 11:22 Jeremiah 13:21 Hosea 2:13 Hosea 8:13 Hosea 9:9

Jeremiah 9:25 · BSB

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—

Jeremiah 11:22 · BSB

So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

Jeremiah 13:21 · BSB

What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

Hosea 2:13 · BSB

I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

Hosea 8:13 · BSB

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:9 · BSB

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

Also

Jeremiah 14:10

Jeremiah 14:10 · BSB

This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

3Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?

Read Amos 3