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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Amos 4:11

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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4:11 As with the plagues on Egypt (4:10), the plagues on Israel increased in magnitude and intensity (cp. 4:12). • as I destroyed: The thought that God would treat his own people in the same way as he had treated Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:24-25) was shocking to their theology.
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