Amos 2:15

Neither shall he stand that handleth the keshet; 1 and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver his own nefesh; 1 neither shall he that rideth the sus deliver himself. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

In Context

14Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, 1 and the chazak shall not strengthen his ko'ach, 1 neither shall the gibbor deliver his own nefesh; 1

16And he that is courageous among the gibborim 1 shall flee away naked in that Yom, 1 saith Hashem.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:16There is no melech saved by the multitude of an army; 1 a gibbor is not delivered by rav ko'ach. 1

Ezekiel 39:3And I will knock thy keshet out of thy left hand, and will cause thine khitzim to fall out of thy right hand.

Matthew Henry on Amos 2:10-16

God's Remonstrance with Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord . 12 But… Read the whole commentary →

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