Amos 2:16

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

In Context

15Neither 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

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Cross References

Judges 4:17Howbeit Sisra fled away on foot to the ohel Ya'el the isha of Chever the Keni; for there was shalom between Yavin Melech Chatzor and the Bais Chever Keni.

Jeremiah 48:41Keriyot is captured, 1 and the strongholds are taken, 1 and the lev gibborim in Moav at that day shall be as the lev isha in her birth pangs. 1

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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