Amos 4:11
Konteks4:11 “I overthrew some of you the way God 1 overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 2
You were like a burning stick 3 snatched from the flames.
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking!
Zakharia 3:2
Konteks3:2 The Lord 4 said to Satan, “May the Lord rebuke you, Satan! May the Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, 5 rebuke you! Isn’t this man like a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
[4:11] 1 tn Several English versions substitute the first person pronoun (“I”) here for stylistic reasons (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
[4:11] 2 tn Heb “like God’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.” The divine name may be used in an idiomatic superlative sense here, in which case one might translate, “like the great [or “disastrous”] overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.”
[4:11] sn The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is described in Gen 19:1-29.
[4:11] 3 tn Heb “like that which is burning.”
[3:2] 4 sn The juxtaposition of the messenger of the
[3:2] 5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.