Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 14:4'Shall not all the workers of iniquity know it, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD?'
Proverbs 11:16A gracious woman obtaineth honour; and strong men obtain riches.
Ecclesiastes 4:1But I returned and considered 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 5:4And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God;
Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords: 'Bring, that we may feast.'
Amos 6:3Ye that 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 →