Amos 3:10
For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?
Proverbs 11:16A gracious woman obtains honor, and aggressive men obtain riches.
Ecclesiastes 4:1Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter. And on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.
Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.
Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 6:3Ye who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
Matthew Henry on Amos 3:10-15
Israel Convicted and Condemned. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord , who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee,… Read the whole commentary →