Amos 5:27

27 ¹and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, ” says the Lord, whose name is ²the God of hosts.

Amos 5:27 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 5:27

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond
Damascus
The chief city of Syria; and which, as Aben Ezra says, lay to the east of the land of Israel, and was a very strong and fortified place: and Syria being in alliance with Israel, the Israelites might think of fleeing thither for refuge, in the time of their distress; but they are here told that they should be taken captive, and be carried to places far more remote than that: Stephen says, "beyond Babylon"; as they were, for they were carried into Media, to Halah and Habor by the river of Gozan, to the cities of the Medes; their way to which lay through Syria and Babylon; (See Gill on Acts 7:43); saith the Lord, whose name [is] the God of hosts;
and therefore is able to do what he threatens; and it might be depended upon it would be certainly done, as it is clear, beyond all contradiction, it has been done; see ( 2 Kings 17:6 ) .

Amos 5:27 In-Context

25 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

26 You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,

27 and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, ” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

Cross References

• 1. 5:27 2 Kgs. 17:6
• 2. 5:27 [See ver. 14 above]