Joshua 5:13-15
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Commander of the Lord’s Army
13 When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand.(A) Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”
14 “Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as commander of the Lord’s army.”
Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in worship(B) and asked Him, “What does my Lord want to say to His servant?”
15 The commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.”(C) And Joshua did so.
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Amos 7:9
Holman Christian Standard Bible
9 Isaac’s high places(A) will be deserted,
and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins;(B)
I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam
with a sword.”
Amos 7:17
Holman Christian Standard Bible
17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
Your wife will be a prostitute in the city,(A)
your sons and daughters will fall by the sword,(B)
and your land will be divided up
with a measuring line.
You yourself will die on pagan[a] soil,(C)
and Israel will certainly go into exile(D)
from its homeland.
Footnotes
- Amos 7:17 Lit unclean
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