Amos 6:14 - Exposition

I will raise up . A nation. The Assyrians. From the entering in of Hamath. A district in the upper part of Coele-Syria, hod. El-Bukaa, the northern boundary of the kingdom of Israel ( Numbers 34:8 ; see on Numbers 34:2 ). The river of the wilderness; rather, the torrent of the Arabah, which is the curious depression in which the Jordan flows, and which continues. though now on a higher level, south of the Dead Sea, towards the Gulf of Akaba. The torrent is probably the Wady es Safieh, just south of the Dead Sea. The limits named define the territory which Jeroboam recovered ( 2 Kings 14:25 ). The LXX . gives, τοῦ χειμάῤῥου τῶν δυσμῶν , "the torrent of the west."