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| Again he states that the people were "brought up from the land of [[Egypt]]".
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| The reference to "one take up a [[snare]]. Has to do with [[Proverbs]] [[one purse]] systems of [[social welfare]] where rulers offer you ''[[dainties|deceitful meats]]'' and we are to put a [[knife]] to our throat and [[consent not]] and David and Paul warn us that what should have been for our [[welfare]] is actually a [[snare]].
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| So is the "store up violence and robbery in their palaces" talking about those men who call themselves [[benefactors]] offering the [[wages of unrighteousness]]. So, it is those who love the [[wages of unrighteousness]] more than [[forgive]]ness who rob themselves of their own soul.
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| It is difficult to understand [[Amos]] if you do not understand the [[Altars]] of [[Clay and stone]] as well as the roll the [[Levites]] played in [[early Israel]] when they practiced [[pure religion]] instead of the [[public religion]] of the [[Pharisees]] who made the word of God to none effect with their [[Corban]].
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| Those [[Knife|kings who offer those deceitful meat]] cause the people to error and return to the [[bondage of Egypt]] but the punishment will come and make them [[merchandise]] and [[curse children]] and calamity.
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| The people who say they [[believer|believe]] in [[Jesus]] are not producing the [[fruit]] of the [[faithful]]. They are actually [[workers of iniquity]].
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| It also might help to understand the [[Horns of the altar]] which have fallen from the [[Modern Church]].
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| When an [[altar]] looses it shine it is because their [[Corban]] is making the word of God to non effect.
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| The Mountains<Ref name="hare">{{02022}}</Ref> of Samaria<Ref name="šōmərōwn">{{08111}}</Ref> seems almost redundant since Samaria by itself means "watch mountain". It is from the word Shamar<Ref name="shamar">{{08104}}</Ref> to keep guard through observation as in keep watch like watchmen. Everywhere you see ShinMemReish it has something to do with sight, observation and being a watchmen. The word mountain appears in the text as hare (הָרֵ֣י) which appears several time in the Biblical text but is almost always translated "My mountain"<Ref>Isaiah 14:25 ... in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; Isaiah 49:11 ...And I will make all my mountains a way; [[Isaiah 65]]:9 ...an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect; Ezekiel 38:21 ...for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith; Zechariah 14:5 ... [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley  </Ref>
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| V9 The palaces at Ashdod<Ref name="Ashdod">{{0795}}</Ref> is the palace of the ''powerful'' from shadad  (שָׁדַד)<Ref name="shadad">{{07703}}</Ref> a verb meaning "to deal violently with, despoil, devastate, ruin, destroy, spoil"‎,<Ref name="desliberty">{{desliberty}}</Ref> and in the palaces in the land of [[Egypt]], and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of [[Samaria]]. This is the same call for the people<Ref name="masses">{{massesnf}}</Ref>  to [[consent]] to [[one purse]], to sit with rulers to eat their [[dainties]]. It is the call of [[Cain]] and [[Nimrod]], and of course in our time it was the same call of [[FDR]] and [[LBJ]]. It is the call to an [[appetite]] of coveting<Ref name="jesuscovet ">{{jesuscovet }}</Ref> what was your neighbors for your own ''gain'' through men who [[exercise authority]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> over what should be your [[power of choice]]. It is a call to [[idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref>
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== Israel's Guilt and Punishment ==

1  ¶ Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of [[Israel]], against the whole family<Ref>[[Micah 3]]:1-5</Ref> which I brought up from the land of [[Egypt]], saying,
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You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your [[iniquity|iniquities]].
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Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
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Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
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Can a bird fall in a [[snare]] upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a [[snare]] from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
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Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
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Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
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The lion hath roared, who will not [[fear]]? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

=== Assemble yourselves with the house of thieves===

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Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of [[Egypt]], and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of [[Samaria]], and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
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For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

=== Weaken the people ===

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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
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Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of [[Israel]] be taken out that dwell in [[Samaria]] in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

=== House of Jacob ===

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Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
14  That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel<Ref name="Robbers">{{Robbers}}</Ref> upon him I will also visit the [[altars]] of Bethel: and the horns<Ref> קַרְנ֣וֹת KufReishNunVavTav <Br>{{07161}}</Ref> of the [[Altars|altar]] shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
15  And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

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