Amos 3:10
For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.
Bible in Basic English
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 evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Proverbs 11:16A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.
Ecclesiastes 4:1And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
Amos 4:1Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
Amos 6:3You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent 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 →