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In the prophecies of Amos, the man who forecast a devastating storm under the clear historical skies of Samaria, we find two passages (Amos 3:2 and 9:7) that seem to contradict each other. … In reality, the verses complement one another: Each of the two gains its truth only in connection with the other.
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Biemann, A.D. (2002). The Election of Israel: A Biblical Inquiry (1938). In: Biemann, A.D. (eds) The Martin Buber Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07671-7_2
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