Amos 3:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 3:9-11

Amos 3:9-11 . Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, &c. God here orders the prophet to invite the Philistines and Egyptians, the inveterate enemies of God’s Israel, to come and behold what great wickedness was among them, and what cause he had to execute what he had threatened, and to mark the calamities coming upon them, as the punishment of that wickedness, that these heathen might hereby take warning. Say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria That is, in the kingdom of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 3:9-15

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 3:10

they know not. Marking the Structure. right = straight forward. Hebrew. nakah . A rare word. Occurs only in 2 Samuel 15:3 .Proverbs 8:9 ("plain"); Amo 24:26 . Isaiah 26:10 ("uprightness"); Amo 30:10 ("right things"); Amo 57:2 ("uprightness"); Amo 59:14 ("equity"). saith the Lord = [is] Jehovah's oracle. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 3:10

"For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up robbery and violence in their palaces."Know not to do right ..." Butler paraphrased this, "Israel does not even know how to do right."[23] This charge is perhaps the worst of all:"It speaks of a state of depravity in which the conscience ceases to function properly and the sinner is unable to distinguish between right and wrong ... When people do not do right, the time comes when they cannot do right."[24]"Store up robbery and violence... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 3:10

10. know not to do—Their moral corruption blinds their power of discernment so that they cannot do right (Jeremiah 4:22). Not simple intellectual ignorance; the defect lay in the heart and will. store up violence and robbery—that is, treasures obtained by "violence and robbery" (Proverbs 10:2). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 3:9-10

Israel’s unparalleled oppression from God 3:9-10 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 3:10

Yahweh announced that the Israelites had plundered, looted, and terrorized each other so long that they no longer knew how to do right (Heb. nekohah, straightness). The Israelites were different from their aggressors because they plundered and looted their own fortresses rather than those of a foreign enemy. It was as though the Israelites hoarded up violence and devastation as others, and they, hoarded material wealth. Now the wealthy foreigners, infamous for their own similar sins, would see... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 3:1-15

The First Address1-8. A call to attention. 9, 10. The oppressions practised by the powerful. 11-15. The disasters which should overtake them, their sanctuary and their palaces.1. ’Race’ would be a more correct word than family. Judah is included in the appeal, but immediately drops out of sight again.2. In the Bible to know frequently means to care for, to be deeply interested in (Genesis 18:19; Hosea 13:5; Nahum 1:7; Job 22:13; Psalms 1:6; Psalms 73:11; Proverbs 2:10; Galatians 4:9): at... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 3:10

(10) Know not to do right.—Not merely have lost the perception of what is and what is not right, but are indifferent to such distinctions. They know not and care not; the awful state of utter moral impotence, wherein not only the intellectual consciousness, but the impulses to action, are languid or even paralysed—a dead conscience! Nothing is more condemnatory than this brief sentence. The light within them is darkness. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Amos 3:1-15

CIVILIZATION AND JUDGMENTAmos 3:1-15 - Amos 4:3WE now enter the Second Section of the Book of Amos: chapters 3-6. It is a collection of various oracles of denunciation, grouped partly by the recurrence of the formula "Hear this word," which stands at the head of our present chapters 3, 4, and 5, which are therefore probably due to it; partly by two cries of "Woe" at Amos 5:18 and Amos 6:1; and also by the fact that each of the groups thus started leads up to an emphatic, though not at first... read more

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