Amos 2:3-13

3 "I will also cut off the ¹judge from her midst And slay all her ²princes with him," says the LORD.

4 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of ³Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they ⁴rejected the law of the LORD And have not kept His statutes; Their ⁵lies also have led them astray, Those after which their ⁶fathers walked.

5 "So I will ⁷send fire upon Judah And it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem."

6 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of ⁸Israel and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they ⁹sell the righteous for money And the needy for a pair of sandals.

7 "These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the ¹⁰helpless Also ¹¹turn aside the way of the humble; And a ¹²man and his father resort to the same girl In order to profane My holy name.

8 "On garments ¹³taken as pledges they stretch out beside ¹⁴every altar, And in the house of their God they ¹⁵drink the wine of those who have been fined.

9 "Yet it was I who destroyed the ¹⁶Amorite before * them, Though his ¹⁷height was like the height of cedars And he was strong as the oaks; I even destroyed his ¹⁸fruit above * and his root below *.

10 "It was I who ¹⁹brought you up from the land of Egypt, And I led you in the wilderness ²⁰forty years That you might take possession of the land of the ²¹Amorite.

11 "Then I ²²raised up some of your sons to be prophets And some of your young men to be ²³Nazirites. Is this not so, O sons of Israel?" declares the LORD.

12 "But you made the Nazirites drink wine, And you commanded the prophets saying, 'You ²⁴shall not prophesy!'

13 "Behold, I am ²⁵weighted down beneath you As a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves.

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Amos 2:3-13 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 25

1. Psalms 2:10; Psalms 141:6; Amos 5:7, 12; Amos 6:12
2. Job 12:21; Isaiah 40:23
3. 2 Kings 17:19; Hosea 12:2; Amos 3:2
4. Judges 2:17-20; 2 Kings 22:11-17; Jeremiah 6:19; Jeremiah 8:9
5. Isaiah 9:15, 16; Isaiah 28:15; Jeremiah 16:19; Habakkuk 2:18
6. Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 16:11, 12; Ezek 20:18, 24, 30
7. Jeremiah 17:27; Jeremiah 21:10; Hosea 8:14
8. 2 Kings 18:11, 12
9. Joel 3:3; Amos 5:11, 12; Amos 8:6
10. Amos 8:4; Micah 2:2, 9
11. Amos 5:12
12. Hosea 4:14
13. Exodus 22:26
14. Amos 3:14
15. Amos 4:1; Amos 6:6
16. Numbers 21:23-25; Joshua 10:12
17. Numbers 13:32
18. Ezekiel 17:9; Malachi 4:1
19. Exodus 12:51; Exodus 20:2; Amos 3:1; Amos 9:7
20. Deuteronomy 2:7
21. Exodus 3:8
22. Deuteronomy 18:18; Jeremiah 7:25
23. Numbers 6:2, 3; Judges 13:5
24. Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 11:21; Amos 7:13, 16; Micah 2:6
25. Isaiah 1:14

Footnotes 9

[a]. Or "executive officer"
[b]. Or "false gods"
[c]. Or "trample" or, "snap at the head of the helpless on the dust"
[d]. Lit "go"
[e]. Possibly a harlot, or a temple prostitute
[f]. Lit "Whose height"
[g]. Lit "To possess"
[h]. Or "tottering"
[i]. Or "totters"