Bible Reading for June 28   
      
      
   2Kings 14   
   [26] For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for   
   there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. [27] And   
   the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven:   
   but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. [28] Now the rest   
   of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred,   
   and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for   
   Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of   
   Israel?   
   [29] And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and   
   Zachariah his son reigned in his stead. Amos 1   
   [1] The words of Amos, who was among the herdman of Tekoa, which he saw   
   concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of   
   Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. [2]   
   And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem;   
   and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall   
   wither.   
   [3] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I   
   will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead   
   with threshing instruments of iron: [4] But I will send a fire into the house   
   of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.   
   [5] I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the   
   plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and   
   the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD. [6] Thus   
   saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not   
   turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole   
   captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: [7] But I will send a fire on the wall   
   of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:   
   [8] And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the   
   sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the   
   remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD. [9] Thus saith   
   the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn   
   away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to   
   Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant: [10] But I will send a fire   
   on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.   
   [11] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I   
   will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother   
   with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually,   
   and he kept his wrath for ever:   
   [12] But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of   
   Bozrah.   
   [13] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon,   
   and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have   
   ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their   
   border: [14] But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall   
   devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest   
   in the day of the whirlwind:   
   [15] And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together,   
   saith the LORD.   
      
   Amos 2   
   [1] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I   
   will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the   
   king of Edom into lime:   
   [2] But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of   
   Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of   
   the trumpet:   
   [3] And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the   
   princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. [4] Thus saith the LORD; For three   
   transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment   
   thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his   
   commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers   
   have walked: [5] But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the   
   palaces of Jerusalem.   
   [6] Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I   
   will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for   
   silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; [7] That pant after the dust of the   
   earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man   
   and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:   
   [8] And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar,   
   and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. [9] Yet   
   destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the   
   cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above,   
   and his roots from beneath.   
   [10] Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years   
   through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. [11] And I raised   
   up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not   
   even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD. [12] But ye gave the   
   Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.   
   [13] Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of   
   sheaves.   
   [14] Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall   
   not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: [15]   
   Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot   
   shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver   
   himself.   
   [16] And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that   
   day, saith the LORD.   
      
   Amos 3   
   [1] Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of   
   Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt,   
   saying, [2] You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore   
   I will punish you for all your iniquities. [3] Can two walk together, except   
   they be agreed? [4] Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will   
   a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? [5] Can a bird fall   
   in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare   
   from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? [6] Shall a trumpet be blown in   
   the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the   
   LORD hath not done it? [7] Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he   
   revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.   
   [8] The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can   
   but prophesy?   
   [9] Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,   
   and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the   
   great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.   
   [10] For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and   
   robbery in their palaces.   
   [11] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round   
   about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy   
   palaces shall be spoiled.   
   [12] Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion   
   two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out   
   that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch. [13]   
   Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of   
   hosts,   
   [14] That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him   
   I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be   
   cut off, and fall to the ground.   
   [15] And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses   
   of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.   
      
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