OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 7:4

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Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

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Verse 4. Part of the land, if the prophet had not interposed; (verse 6. Calmet.) or rather civil wars desolated a great part of the kingdom, before the Lord was appeased. Bible.—The fire foreshewed the captivity of the two tribes. 4 Kennicott. 24. Worthington.

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