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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Amos 4:13

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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4:13 This verse appears to be a hymn fragment, possibly sung by the worshipers at Bethel (for other hymn fragments, see 5:8-9; 9:5-6). Israel had been treating God as a baal—a local god with limited power. But the God they professed to worship and whom they would face in judgment is all-powerful.
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