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Amos 3:2

WEB

2“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

KJV

2You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

BSB

2“Only you have I known [+] from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

FBV

2I chose a special relationship[+] with you alone out of all the families of the earth, and so I will punish you for your wrongdoing.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 7:6

6For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Exodus 19:5-6

5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 10:15

15Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

1 Peter 4:17

17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

Zechariah 14:17-18

17It will be that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, on them there will be no rain. 18If the family of Egypt doesn’t go up and doesn’t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which the LORD will strike the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.

Jeremiah 14:10

10The LORD says to this people: “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”

Deuteronomy 32:9

9For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Jeremiah 10:25

25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Jeremiah 1:15

15For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says the LORD. “They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

Jeremiah 11:22

22therefore the LORD of Armies says, ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.