Amos
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Cruelty and Violence in Amos

  1. The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Hazael, Gaza, Tyrus, Teman, Rabbah, Moab, and Judah. 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2, 5

  2. God will "slay all the princes" of Moab.2:3

  3. God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9

  4. God afflicts the Israelites with "cleanness of teeth" (famine) and drought. And then he wonders why they don't turn to him. 4:6-9

  5. God sends the pestilence, kills young men with the sword, and makes the "stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils." 4:10

  6. "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel."
    God promises to kill all the Israelites. 4:12

  7. God tells the Israelites to seek him or he'll kill 90% of them. 5:3-4

  8. Seek God or he'll burn you to death. 5:6

  9. When there is wailing and mourning, you'll know God's been there. 5:16-17

  10. God says, "If there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die." 6:9

  11. "The LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts."
    (God will destroy people's houses.) 6:11

  12. In the first of Amos' visions, God makes some grasshoppers and sends them to devour the peoples' crops. 7:1-2

  13. Next God sends a fire that consumes both land and sea. 7:4

  14. God will kill the house of Jeroboam with the sword, and force the Israelites into captivity. 7:9-11

  15. Amos tells Amaziah that his wife will become a whore, his children will be killed, and he'll die in a pagan country. 7:17

  16. God tells Amos that the end has come for the people of Israel. He won't wait any longer to kill them all. 8:2

  17. God will kill so many people that dead bodies will lay everywhere. 8:3-14

  18. God will "slay the last of them with the sword." Any that try to escape by diving to the bottom of the sea will be bitten, at God's command, by a serpent. God will set his "eyes upon them for evil, not for good." 9:1-4

  19. God will destroy the "the sinful kingdom" and "all the sinners" among his people. 9:8-10