Amos 2:1

Yahweh also said this: “ I will punish the people of Moab because of the many sins that they have committed; I will not change my mind about punishing them, because they dug up the bones of the king of Edom and burned them completely, with the result that the ashes became as white as lime.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2So I will cause a fire to completely burn the fortresses of Kerioth city in Moab. People will hear soldiers shouting and blowing trumpets loudly while I am causing Moab to be destroyed

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Cross References

Numbers 22:1Then the Israelis traveled west to the area of Moab that was in the valley of the Jordan River, across the river from Jericho city.

2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel and his army went with the kings of Judah and Edom and their armies. They marched for seven days. Then there was no water left for their soldiers or for their animals that carried supplies.

Psalms 83:4They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”

Isaiah 11:14Their armies will join together to attack the people of Philistia to the west. And together they will attack nations to the east; they will defeat those nations and take away all their valuable possessions. They will capture the areas of Edom and Moab, and the people of the Ammon people-group will be controlled/ruled by the people of Israel and Judah.

Isaiah 25:10Yahweh [MTY] will protect and bless Jerusalem. But he will crush the people in the land of Moab; they will be like [SIM] straw that is trampled in the manure and left to rot.

Ezekiel 25:8This is also what Yahweh the Lord says: “ The people of Moab south of Ammon and the people of Seir south of Moab despised Israel and said, ‘The people [MTY] of Israel have become as unimportant as all the other nations!’

Matthew Henry on Amos 2:1

In this chapter, I. God, by the prophet, proceeds in a like controversy with Moab as before with other nations, ver. 1-3 . II. He shows what quarrel he had with Judah, ver. 4, 5 . III. He at length begins his charge against Israel, to which all that goes before is but an introduction. Observe, 1. The sins they are charged with—injustice, oppression, whoredom, ver. 6-8 . 2. The aggravations of those sins—the temporal and spiritual mercies God had bestowed upon them, for which they had made him such ungrateful… Read the whole commentary →

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