Amos 6:13

Ye which rejoice over what is worthless, 1 which say: Have we not taken to us 1 horns + 6:13 i.e., symbols of military resources by chazekeinu (our own strength)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

In Context

12Do susim run upon the rock? 1 Do men plow there with oxen? 1 For ye have turned mishpat into poison, 1 and the p'ri of tzedakah into wormwood; 1

14But, hineni, I will raise up against you a Goy (Nation), 1 O Bais Yisroel, saith Hashem Elohei Tzva'os; 1 and they shall afflict you from the territory of Chamat 1 unto the Wadi of the Aravah. + 6:14 Notice in the next chapter that Amos refuses to be intimidated by an apostate religious leader who dares to war against Scripture. Amos gives a prophetic prediction that this chalatan will be defrocked by Hashem by being dragged off to an unclean heathen land.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:18And Moses said, It is not the voice of them that shout for gevurah, neither is it the voice of them that cry of chalushah; but the noise of them that sing that I hear.

Judges 9:27And they went out into the sadeh, and gathered their kramim, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the bais eloheihem, and did eat and drink, and cursed Avimelech.

1 Samuel 4:5And when the Aron Brit Hashem came into the machaneh, kol Yisroel shouted with a teru'ah gedolah, so that ha'aretz shook.

2 Kings 14:12And Yehudah went down in defeat before Yisroel; and they fled every ish to his ohel.

2 Chronicles 28:6For Pekach ben Remalyahu slaughtered in Yehudah 120 elef in yom echad, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken Hashem Elohei Avotam.

Job 31:25If I rejoice because my wealth was rav (great), 1 and because mine yad had gotten much, 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 6:9-14

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 790.) 8 The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he… Read the whole commentary →

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