Amos 2:4-5

7. An oracle against Judah 2:4-5

God would treat Judah with the same justice that He promised Israel’s other neighbor nations. Judah’s overflowing sin was her failure to live by the Torah, the instruction that Yahweh had given her, including the Mosaic Covenant (cf. Romans 2:12-15). Listening to false prophets and worshipping idols (Heb. kazib, a lie, something deceptive) had been major evidences of this apostasy (cf. Deuteronomy 6:14; Deuteronomy 7:16; Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 11:16; Deuteronomy 11:28). [Note: See Andersen and Freedman, pp. 301-5, for defense of the false prophet interpretation.] So Yahweh promised to destroy Judah and Jerusalem as He had promised to destroy her sinful neighbors.

The fulfillment came with Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. (2 Kings 25:1-12).