Amos 4:10

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

Cross-references

Amos 4:6 Parallel

Amos 4:6 begins the same refrain: famine sent yet no return. It frames this plague within a series of escalating judgments.

Amos 8:3 Parallel

In Amos 8:3, this judgment escalates to wailing and corpses thrown everywhere, reinforcing the stench of unburied dead from 4:10.

Psalm 78:50 Parallel

In Psalm 78:50, God does not spare from death but gives over to the plague, echoing the judgment in Amos.

In Jeremiah 18:21, judgment includes sword for young men and pestilence, matching the plague and sword in Amos.

Jeremiah 16:4 combines sword, disease, and unburied bodies as dung, closely mirroring Amos's plague and stench.

In Jeremiah 11:22, young men shall die by the sword—a direct parallel to the same judgment in Amos.

Jeremiah 9:22 echoes the same image: dead bodies like dung unburied, paralleling the stench of Amos's camps.

Exodus 9:3-6 details the plague on livestock that Amos references with 'plagues among you as I did to Egypt' — pestilence striking animals.

Deuteronomy 28:60 warns of all the diseases of Egypt clinging to the disobedient — precisely the plagues Amos says God sent on Israel.

Deuteronomy 28:27 threatens boils and tumors like those of Egypt — matching the Egyptian plagues Amos says God brought on Israel.

In Deuteronomy 28:26, dead bodies as food for birds and beasts is a covenant curse, giving background to the stench of camps in Amos.

Deuteronomy 28:22 lists wasting disease and fever as covenant curses — the same kind of plagues Amos says God sent on Israel.

Deuteronomy 7:15 promises that obedience keeps the Egyptian diseases away — but Amos shows God bringing them on Israel for not returning to him.

Leviticus 26:25 threatens sword and plague for covenant breaking — exactly the dual judgment Amos describes: killed with sword and plagues.

Leviticus 26:16 warns of wasting diseases and fever as covenant curses — parallel to the plagues Amos says God sent on Israel.

Exodus 15:26 promises Israel that obedience would spare them from Egyptian diseases — but Amos shows God sending those very plagues due to disobedience.

Exodus 12:29 records the death of the firstborn — one of the plagues Amos alludes to when saying 'plagues among you as I did to Egypt'.

Jeremiah 15:7 says God winnowed His people but they did not turn—exact same complaint as Amos' 'yet you have not returned'.

2 Kings 13:7 Historical context

In 2 Kings 13:7, the Syrian king destroys Israel's army and horses, reflecting the loss of young men and horses in Amos.

In Jeremiah 6:11, the Lord's wrath is poured out on young men, paralleling the sword killing young men in Amos.

In Jeremiah 48:15, Moab's choicest young men are slaughtered, similar to the sword judgment against Israel in Amos.

Lamentations 2:21 echoes the same image of young men slain by the sword in judgment, reinforcing the devastation Amos describes.

Ezekiel 14:19 also lists pestilence as a divine judgment, matching the plague Amos says was sent but ignored.