Amos 2:3

3 I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him,” says the LORD.

Amos 2:3 in Other Translations

3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

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

3 And I will destroy their king and slaughter all their princes,” says the LORD .

3 I'll remove the king from the center and kill all his princes with him."

3 I will cut off the judge from the land and kill all its officials with him. The Lord has spoken.

Amos 2:3 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 2:3

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof
Either from the midst of Moab, the country in general; or from Kerioth in particular, so Kimchi; meaning their principal governor, their king, as Aben Ezra; for kings sometimes have acted as judges, took the bench, and sat and administered justice to their subjects: and I will stay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord;
the king, and the princes of the blood, and his nobles; so that there should be none to succeed him, or to protect and defend the people; the destruction should be an entire one, and inevitable, for the mouth of the Lord had spoken it. This was fulfilled at the same time as the prophecy against the children of Ammon by Nebuchadnezzar, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem ^F15, which is next threatened.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Joseph. Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7. Vid. Judith i. 12.

Amos 2:3 In-Context

1 This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Moab, even for four, I will not relent. Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king,

2 I will send fire on Moab that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.Moab will go down in great tumult amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet.

3 I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him,” says the LORD.

4 This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not relent. Because they have rejected the law of the LORDand have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods,the gods their ancestors followed,

5 I will send fire on Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”

Cross References

• 1. S Psalms 2:10
• 2. S Isaiah 40:23
• 3. Isaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah 16:1-14; S Isaiah 25:10; Jeremiah 48:1; S Ezekiel 25:8-11; Zephaniah 2:8-9