Amos 3:10
And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 14:4Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread ?
Proverbs 11:16A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.
Ecclesiastes 4:1I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.
Jeremiah 5:4But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.
Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.
Amos 6:3You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity;
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 →