Amos 2:2 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 2:1-8

Here is, I. The judgment of Moab, another of the nations that bordered upon Israel. They are reckoned with and shall be punished for three transgressions and for four, as those before. Now, 1. Moab's fourth transgression, as theirs who were before set to the bar, was cruelty. The instance given refers not to the people of God, but to a heathen like themselves: The king of Moab burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime. We find there was war between the Edomites and the Moabites, in which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 2:2

But I will send a fire upon Moab ,.... Either on the whole country, or on some particular city so called, as in all the other prophecies; and there was a city called Moab, now Areopolis; see Gill on Jeremiah 48:4 ; though it may be put for the whole country, into which an enemy should be sent to destroy it, even Nebuchadnezzar: and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth ; a principal city in the land of Moab; according to Kimchi, it was the royal city, and therefore mention is made of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:2

The palaces of Kirioth - This was one of the principal cities of the Moabites. Moab shall die with tumult - All these expressions seem to refer to this city's being taken by storm, which was followed by a total slaughter of its inhabitants. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:2

Verse 2 He therefore adds a threatening, I will send a fire on Moab, which shall devour the palaces of קריות , Koriut We have stated that what the Prophet means by these modes of speaking is that God would consume the Moabites by a violent punishment as by a burning fire, that fortified places could not hinder him from executing his vengeance, and that though they were proud of their palaces, yet these would avail them nothing. And he subjoins, Moab shall die with tumult, with noise, with the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:1-3

Judgment on Moab. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:1-3

The woe against Moab. Much that has been said of Ammon applies equally to Moab. The two nations had close relations and affinities, and in Scripture are generally mentioned together. Both were mildly treated by Israel ( Deuteronomy 2:9 , Deuteronomy 2:19 ) as long as such treatment was possible. Yet were they at one in an implacable hatred of her, and a national policy of outrage towards her. A spring raid into Hebrew territory seems to have been an established Moabitish institution ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:1-3

Moab's brutality avenged. It is natural for the mind to lay hold upon and to retain in memory some one out of many characteristics of a nation, some one out of many incidents of a war. The one thing that is remembered is representative of many things that are forgotten. So is it with Amos's treatment of the sins of the surrounding nations. Several of these are characterized by some special quality. In the case before us in this passage an incident of malignant brutality is mentioned, not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:2

Kirioth ; cities, and so taken as an appellative by the Septuagint translators, τῶν πόλεων αὐτῆς : but it is doubtless a proper name of one of the chief Moabite towns ( Jeremiah 48:24 , Jeremiah 48:41 ). Keil, after Burckhardt, identifies it with the decayed town of Kereyat, or Korriat ; others, with Ar, or Kir, the old capital ( Isaiah 15:1 ). The plural termination of the word,like Athenae, Thebae, etc; may denote a double city—upper and lower, or old and new. Moab... read more

Albert Barnes

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

It shall devour the palaces of Kerioth - Literally, “the cities,” that is, a collection of cities. It may have received a plural form upon some enlargement, as Jerusalem received a dual form, as a double city. The name is, in different forms, very common . In the plain or high downs of Moab itself, there were both Kiriathaim, “double city” and Kerloth Jeremiah 48:23-24; in Naphthali, a Kiriathaim, (1 Chronicles 6:76, (1 Chronicles 6:61 in Hebrew)) or Kartan Joshua 21:32; in Judah, the Kerioth... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 2:1-3

Amos 2:1-3. For three transgressions of Moab Moab and Ammon being nearly related, (see Genesis 19:37,) and bordering upon each other, they are usually joined together in the threatenings of the prophets. Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime To plaster the walls of his house with it, as the Chaldee paraphrase explains the text, which was most ungenerously and cruelly insulting over the dead. A like story is told by Sir Paul Rycaut ( Present State of the Greek Church, ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Amos 2:1-8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Amos 2:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Amos 2:2

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 2:1-3

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