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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments 1 Kings 14:15, 16

For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger. / So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments 1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments 1 Kings 20:13–28

Meanwhile a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do you see this entire great army? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this very day, and you will know that I am the LORD.’” / “By whom?” Ahab asked. And the prophet replied, “This is what the LORD says: ‘By the young officers of the district governors.’” “Who will start the battle?” asked Ahab. “You will,” answered the prophet. / So Ahab assembled the young officers of the district governors, and there were 232 men. And after them, he assembled the rest of the Israelite troops, 7,000 in all.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments 2 Kings 7:1, 2, 17

Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’” / But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.” / Now the king had appointed the officer on whose arm he leaned to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king had come to him.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments 2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Isaiah 7:8

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Isaiah 8:4–7

For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” / And the LORD spoke to me further: / “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Isaiah 9:8–21

The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel. / All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: / “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Isaiah 17:3–11

The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts. / “In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away, / as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Isaiah 28:1–8

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine. / Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground. / The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 1:1–9

This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel. / When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.” / So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 2:1–13

“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’ / Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts. / Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 8:1

Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 10:1

Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 11:5, 6

Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent? / A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 12:7–14

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands. / And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.” / But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Hosea 13:1

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 2:6–16

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals. / They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name. / They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 5:1

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 6:1

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 7:1

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 8:1

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

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