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Read Full Chapter (Amos 1) Amos 1:16 KJV
"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:"
Amos Chapter 1, Verse 16
Amos 1:16 in Context (Verses 13–15 KJV)
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¶ 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:*
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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:
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And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.