Daily Archives: 11/18/2024

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (AMOS 4:1-13 “ISRAEL HAS NOT RETURNED TO THE LORD”)

1.Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (HOLON)

Place-name meaning “sandy spot.” 1. Town in the hill country of Judah allotted to tribe of Judah and given as city for Levites (Josh 15:51; 21:15). It may be modern Khirbet illin near Beth-zur. The parallel passage (1 Chron 6:58) has Hilez or Hilen in different manuscripts. 2. City of Moab that Jeremiah condemned (Jer 48:21). Its location is not known.

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