Identify how God punished Israel and other nations .

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Israel. She committed several crimes, which were condemned by Prophet Amos. Read lesson
two again before you go on and list down crimes that were pointed out by Amos. Okay, you
have seen that Israel committed crimes of injustice, disobedience to God, breaking their
covenant with God, idolatry, hypocrisy among other sins mentioned above. Israel was punished
for these crimes.
Punishments were severe. Israelites would be exiled forcibly and painfully. Earthquakes, famines,
fires, oppression from foreign kings, epidemics and divine silence, would destroy their kingdom
and holy places.
ii) Syria. Its capital was Damascus. Syria committed war crimes. The soldiers were excessively
cruel in times of war. They murdered their prisoners brutally. For this cruelty, their punishment
was to be severe. Their palaces would be destroyed by fire and the people would be exiled in
Kir.
iii) Gaza and philistines. Their crime was capturing other people and selling them into slavery. For
this sin, God’s punishment was destruction of their city by divine fire. It would burn down the
wall of Gaza city and destroy it. God would have no more association with them.
iv) Tyre. Their Crime was violation of a treaty of friendship they had made. They broke it by
capturing a “whole nation into exile in the land of Edom”. The punishment was …God would
send fire to destroy city of Tyre and its fortress (Amos 1:9-10).
v. Edom. Her people were descendants of Esau. Yet Edom was ruthless to the Israelite to whom
they were closely related. For this crime of ruthlessness, the punishment was … God would
destroy them by fire

vi) Ammon committed crime of brutal killings. The people of Ammon attacked and killed their
neighbours. They “ripped open pregnant woman in Gilead” (vs. 13). God’s punishment was
destruction of the fortress and wall of the city of Rabbah by fire. “Their king and his officers
will go into exile: (vs. 15).
vii)Moab. The people of Moab; their crime was mishandling the body of the king of Edom. They
burned his bones to ashes. God’s punishment was destruction of the city of Kerioth by divine
fire. The people, their rulers and leaders would be killed in battle.
viii) Judah. Their crimes were (1) failure to obey God’s commands and (2) despising god’s
teaching.
ix) Samaria, Egypt and Ashdod. Their crime was dishonesty and “filling their mansions with
things taken by crime and violence” (Amos 3:10). Women of Samaria committed the crime of
drunkenness, oppressing the weak and poor. The punishment for all these countries is
destruction of their land, mansions and army. But a remnant will not go to captivity, and shall
not be destroyed. Amos said the remnants are like … 2 legs, or a piece of an ear of a sheep
rescued from the mouth of a lion (Amos 3:12)
x) Amaziah the priest of Bethel. He strongly opposed Amos and told him to go back and prophesy
in Judah. Amos told Amaziah God sent him to Israel. His punishment for opposing God’s
messenger was. Amaziah’s wife would be a harlot, his children will die in the war, his land will
be given to others, and Amaziah will die in a foreign land

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