1. Amos 8:3 (ESV)
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What day is being referred to?

Amos 8:3 (ESV)

3 The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,”declares the Lord GOD. “So many dead bodies!” “They are thrown everywhere!” “Silence!”

This refers to the day on which God acted to judge Israel, the day when the Assyrian armies came to destroy the northern kingdom. 

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