Amos 2:3

And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

In Context

2But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.

4Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

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Cross References

Numbers 24:17I will point to him, but not now; 1 I bless him, but he draws not near: 1 A star shall rise out of Jacob, 1 A man shall spring out of Israel; 1 And shall crush the princes of Moab, 1 And shall spoil all the sons of Seth. 1

Isaiah 40:23he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

Matthew Henry on Amos 2:2-9

The Judgment of Moab and of Judah; The Judgment of Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith… Read the whole commentary →

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