Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy / BEERSHEBA

Amos 8:4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

                                  (who celebrate a sabbath)
Amos 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Amos 8:6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Amos 8:7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

earthquake ????   Amos 8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

mannner of beersheba liveth

   wilderness of Beersheba.

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 Genesis 21:22   And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
  Genesis 21:23   Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojournd.
  Genesis 21:24   And Abraham said, I will swear.
  Genesis 21:25   And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
  Genesis 21:26   And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
  Genesis 21:27   And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
  Genesis 21:28   And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
  Genesis 21:29   And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
  Genesis 21:30   And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
  Genesis 21:31   Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.