Amos 4:3

Your enemies will drag you out through breaks/holes in your city walls, and they will throw you outside the city. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.

In Context

2But Yahweh our God has said this: “Because I am holy, I solemnly promise this: It will soon be the time when you all will be taken to another country; your enemies will take you away as though they are using sharp hooks [DOU] to grab you.

4Go to Bethel and Gilgal towns where many people worship me and sin more and more [SAR]! I say that not because I want you to do it, but because it is what you have always been doing! Offer sacrifices on the morning after you arrive, and bring me ◄a tithe/one tenth► of your crops the next day.

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Cross References

2 Kings 7:15They went as far as the Jordan River. All along the road they saw clothes and equipment that the soldiers from Syria had thrown away while they were running away very quickly. So the men returned to the king and reported what they had seen.

Isaiah 2:20On that day, people will get rid of all their gold and silver idols that they made to worship, and they will throw them to the bats and rats.

Ezekiel 12:5Dig through the city wall and take your things through the hole.

Amos 6:7Your feasting and lounging on soft couches will soon end, and you will be among the first ones to be forced by your enemies to go ◄into exile/to another country►.

Matthew 16:26People might get everything they want in this world, but ◄ if they do not become my disciples, they would really be gaining nothing because they would not get eternal life!/what would they gain if they do not become my disciples and thus do not get eternal life?► [RHQ] ◄There is absolutely nothing that people can give to God that would enable them to gain eternal life./What can people give to God that could enable them to gain eternal life?► [MTY, RHQ]

Matthew Henry on Amos 4:2-6

Threatenings against Oppressors; Punishment of Proud Oppressors. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. 2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into… Read the whole commentary →

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