Amos 3:10

For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Cross-reference

Amos 3:11 Parallel

Amos 3:11 announces the consequence: an adversary will plunder their strongholds because they stored violence and robbery.

Amos 4:1 Parallel

In Amos 4:1, wealthy women are condemned for oppressing the poor, a related social injustice to the violence stored in strongholds.

James 5:4 Parallel

James 5:4 condemns defrauding laborers, whose cries reach God — a direct example of the robbery and violence stored up in Amos's palaces.

Zephaniah 1:9 punishes those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud — same sin as in Amos 3:10.

Jeremiah 4:22 says God's people know how to do evil but not good — nearly identical to Amos 3:10's charge.

James 5:3 Parallel

James 5:3 warns that hoarded gold and silver will rust and testify against the rich, mirroring the stored-up violence in Amos that brings judgment.

Habakkuk 2:8-11 condemns plunder and evil gain filling houses — directly parallels storing violence in strongholds.

In Ezekiel 8:17, the same charge of filling the land with violence parallels Amos's indictment of storing up violence and robbery.

Micah 6:10 Parallel

Micah 6:10 condemns treasures of wickedness and dishonest measures, similar to the stored violence and robbery in Amos.

Ezekiel 22:29 directly mentions robbery and oppression of the poor, mirroring the violence and robbery stored up in Amos.

Ezekiel 18:7 describes a righteous person who commits no robbery, contrasting with the wicked who store up violence and robbery in Amos.

Ezekiel 7:11 says violence has become a rod of wickedness bringing destruction — directly reinforcing Amos's theme of stored violence leading to judgment.

Jeremiah 17:11 condemns gaining riches unjustly, saying they will be lost — the same theme of ill-gotten treasure that Amos describes as stored violence.

Isaiah 59:6 Parallel

Isaiah 59:6 declares that acts of violence fill the hands of the wicked — directly paralleling the violence and robbery stored up in Amos’s palaces.

Jeremiah 52:13 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 52:13 records the burning of palaces and great houses — a literal judgment on the very structures that Amos accused of harboring violence.

Jeremiah 6:5 calls for the destruction of palaces at night — a judgment that corresponds to the judgment on palaces filled with violence in Amos.

Zechariah 5:4 depicts a curse consuming the house of a thief — a specific judgment on ill-gotten gains stored within, echoing Amos's condemnation of palaces filled with violence.

Romans 2:5 Parallel

In Romans 2:5, storing up wrath for judgment echoes the imagery of storing up sin, connecting the principle of accumulated guilt.

In Ezekiel 22:13, dishonest gain and bloodshed are condemned, echoing the violence and robbery stored up in Amos.

Leviticus 6:4 requires restitution for things taken violently or deceitfully — the same kind of injustice that Amos says is hoarded in palaces.

Jeremiah 5:4 says the poor do not know the way of the Lord or justice — similar ignorance as in Amos 3:10.

Psalm 14:4 Parallel

Psalm 14:4 asks if workers of iniquity have no knowledge, matching Amos' 'they do not know how to do right'.