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The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 4:3

At the breaches made in the city walls, as cattle hurry through gaps in a fence. Thus they should go forth when Samaria was taken. Every cow at that which is before her; better, each straight before her, just where the opening offered itself (comp. Joshua 6:5 , Joshua 6:20 ). The LXX . inserts γυμναί , "naked." And ye shall cast them into the palace; Septuagint, καὶ ἀποῤῥιφήσεσθε εἰς τὸ ὄρος τὸ ῥομμάν , ( ῥεμμάν , Alex.), "And ye shall be cast forth into... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:2

The Lord God hath sworn by His holiness - They had sinned to profane His “Holy Name” (see the note at Amos 2:7). God swears by that holiness which they had profaned in themselves on whom it was called, and which they had caused to be profaned by others. He pledges His own holiness, that He will avenge their unholiness. : “In swearing “by His holiness,” God sware by Himself. For He is the supreme uncreated justice and Holiness. This justice each, in his degree, should imitate and maintain on... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Amos 4:3

Ye shall go out through the breaches - Samaria, the place of their ease and confidence, being broken through, they should go forth one by one, “each straight before her,” looking neither to the right nor to the left, as a herd of cows go one after the other through a gap in a fence. Help and hope have vanished, and they hurry pell-mell after one another, reckless and desperate, as the animals whose life of sense they had chosen.And ye shall cast them into the palace - Or, better, (since nothing... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 4:2

Amos 4:2. The Lord hath sworn by his holiness As sure as God is holy and true, so certainly will he bring the threatened judgment upon you; that he will take you away with hooks “The original word in the masculine is used for thorns; but in the feminine it signifies shields. So that, perhaps, a fishing instrument may be denoted, which, like some now in our use, resembled a shield, or a basket, in its form. Our translators render the word hooks, from their analogy to thorns.” ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 4:3

Amos 4:3. And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow, &c. The prophet pursues the metaphor taken from the kine of Bashan, Amos 4:1, and tells the people, that as cattle strive to get out at every breach they can find in a mound or fence: so should they, with all possible haste, endeavour to make their escape at the several breaches which should be made in the walls of Samaria. And ye shall cast them into the palace The marginal reading is preferable, Ye shall cast away the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 4:1-3

The corruption of Samaria (3:9-4:3)Amos tries to shame the people of Israel (capital: Samaria) by inviting their enemies to come and see how bad the nation is, with all its oppression, lawlessness, violence and greed (9-10). Israel will surely be conquered and plundered. The only things that will remain as a reminder of former luxury will be a few scraps of furniture. The remains of the nation will be like the remains of a sheep that has been attacked and eaten by wild animals (11-12). The... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:2

The Lord GOD . See note on Amos 1:7 . sworn by His holiness. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 22:16 ). lo. Figure of speech Asferismos. App-6 . hooks. In the Assyrian monuments we see the captives with literal "hooks" in their noses. Compare 2 Chronicles 33:11 .Job 40:24 ; Job 41:2 .Isaiah 37:29 . Ezekiel 29:4 . your posterity = the remnant of you. Hebrew. 'aharith, as in Ezekiel 23:25 . Not posterity. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 4:3

cow , i.e. woman. at that which is before her = each woman through the breach [in the wall of Samaria]. before her i.e. without turning to the left or right. Compare Joshua 6:5 , Joshua 6:20 . ye shall cast them into the palace . Palace, Hebrew. harmon (see note on Amos 1:4 ). Here it is haharmonah, which forms the Figure of speech Paronomasia ( App-6 ) with 'arman (Amos 3:11 ). The clause is to be interpreted by Amos 3:11 , Amos 3:12 , end Amos 5:27 , and would then road: "ye shall be... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 4:2

"The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks. And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, saith Jehovah."The exact meaning of this passage is very difficult to determine, due to the damaged nature of the Hebrew text from which it is translated. Some widely different translations have come down to us. Wolfe... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 4:3

Amos 4:3. And ye shall go out, &c.— And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow after the other, and shall betake yourselves to the mountains of Mona, saith the Lord. But Houbigant supposes the metaphor in the preceding verses to be kept up; and he translates it, And ye shall come out by the apertures which are nearest to you, and ye shall be cast into nets, or receptacles. He conceives the meaning of the metaphor to be, that these fishes, being caught with hooks and nets, should be... read more