Amos 2:2-12

2 So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of ¹Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;

3 ²I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill ³all its princes^[a] with him," says the LORD.

Judgment on Judah

4 Thus says the LORD: ⁴"For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because ⁵they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but ⁶their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.

5 So ⁷I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."

Judgment on Israel

6 Thus says the LORD: ⁸"For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because ⁹they sell the righteous for ¹⁰silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals--

7 those who trample the head of the poor ¹¹into the dust of the earth and ¹²turn aside the way of the afflicted; ¹³a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

8 they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments ¹⁴taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

9 "Yet ¹⁵it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, ¹⁶whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; ¹⁷I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

10 ¹⁸Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt ¹⁹and led you forty years in the wilderness, ²⁰to possess the land of the Amorite.

11 And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for ²¹Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?" declares the LORD.

12 "But you made the Nazirites ²²drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ²³'You shall not prophesy.'

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Amos 2:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 2

In this chapter the prophet foretells the calamities that should come upon the Moabites for their transgressions, Am 2:1-3; and the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem for their iniquities, Am 2:4,5; also the judgments of God that should come upon Israel the ten tribes for their sins, which sins are enumerated; their oppression of the poor, their lewdness and idolatry, Am 2:6-8; and which are aggravated by the blessings of goodness bestowed upon them, both temporal and spiritual, Am 2:9-12; wherefore they are threatened with ruin, which would be inevitable, notwithstanding their swiftness, strength, and courage, and their skill in shooting arrows, and riding horses, Am 2:13-16.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

1. Jeremiah 48:24, 41
2. [Jeremiah 48:7]
3. [Jeremiah 48:7]
4. See Amos 1:3
5. Leviticus 26:14, 15; Nehemiah 1:7; Ezek. 20:13, 16, 24; [Daniel 9:11]
6. Jeremiah 16:19, 20; Romans 1:25
7. Jeremiah 17:27; Hosea 8:14
8. [See ver. 4 above]
9. [Leviticus 25:39; 2 Kings 4:1]
10. Amos 8:6
11. Lamentations 2:10
12. Amos 5:12; Job 24:4; Isaiah 10:2
13. [1 Corinthians 5:1]; See Ezekiel 22:11
14. See Exodus 22:26
15. Deuteronomy 2:31; Joshua 24:8; See Numbers 21:21-25
16. [Numbers 13:32, 33; Isaiah 10:33]
17. [Job 18:16]
18. Amos 3:1; Exodus 12:17, 51
19. See Deuteronomy 8:2
20. [See ver. 9 above]
21. Numbers 6:2
22. [Numbers 6:3]
23. Amos 7:13, 16; Isaiah 30:10; Micah 2:6

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or officials

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