Amos 4:3-5
EasyEnglish Bible
3 There are places in your city's walls where people have broken the walls. Your enemies will pull you through those places and they will throw you out. They will take you to that bad place called Harmon.[a] None of you will stay here.’
The people in Israel have not learned to listen to God
4 The Lord also says, ‘You like to go to Bethel. You say that it is your holy place. And when you go there, you do wrong things. So go there, if you must, and do your bad things. Go to Gilgal, if you must, and do more bad things there. You bring your sacrifices there every morning as a gift. But that does not make me happy. Every three days, you bring your gifts. But that also does not make me happy. 5 You bring bread to say “thank you”. You even bring lots of it and you tell everyone, “Look at how much I have brought.” You really like to do that. So continue to do it, but it does not make me happy.’ The Lord God says this!
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- 4:3 Harmon was a place that people were afraid of. Today nobody knows where this place was.
Amos 4:3-5
New International Version
3 You will each go straight out
through breaches in the wall,(A)
and you will be cast out toward Harmon,[a]”
declares the Lord.
4 “Go to Bethel(B) and sin;
go to Gilgal(C) and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,(D)
your tithes(E) every three years.[b](F)
5 Burn leavened bread(G) as a thank offering
and brag about your freewill offerings(H)—
boast about them, you Israelites,
for this is what you love to do,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.
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