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Amos 9:1

Amos 9:1

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

I saw: 2 Chronicles 18:18; Isaiah 6:1; Ezekiel 1:28; John 1:18, John 1:32; Acts 26:13; Revelation 1:17

upon: Amos 3:14; Ezekiel 9:2, Ezekiel 10:4

Smite: Isaiah 6:3-4; Zechariah 11:1-2

lintel: or, chapiter, or knop

cut them: or, wound them, in the head. Psalms 68:21; Habakkuk 3:13

shall not flee: Amos 2:14-15; Isaiah 24:17-18, Isaiah 30:16; Jeremiah 48:44

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