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Amos 5:12

Amos 5:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

I know: Deuteronomy 31:21; Isaiah 66:18; Jeremiah 29:23; Hebrews 4:12-13

manifold: 2 Kings 17:7-17; Isaiah 47:9

they afflict: Amos 2:6-7, Amos 2:16; Acts 3:13-14, Acts 7:52; James 5:4, James 5:6

take: 1 Samuel 8:3; Psalms 26:9-10; Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 33:15; Micah 3:11, Micah 7:3

bribe: or, ransom

and they: Amos 2:7; Isaiah 10:2, Isaiah 29:21; Lamentations 3:34; Malachi 3:5

in the: Amos 5:10; Deuteronomy 16:18; Ruth 4:1; Job 29:7-25, Job 31:21; Proverbs 22:22

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