Amos 6:13

You are proud because you have captured Lo-Debar town, and you have said, “We captured Karnaim by our own power!”

Translation for Translators

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

12Horses certainly do not [RHQ] run on big rocks, and certainly people do not [RHQ] plow the sea with oxen. But you have done things that no one should do: You have distorted what is fair/right and caused it to be considered like poison [MET]; you have changed what is right and consider it to be like things that are bitter.

14But the Commander of the armies of angels declares, “I will cause another nation to attack you people [MTY] of Israel; they will ◄oppress you/cause you to suffer► all the way from Hamath Pass in the northwest to the Dead Sea in the southeast.”

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Cross References

Exodus 32:18But Moses/I replied, “No, that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated in a battle What I hear is the sound of loud singing!”

Judges 9:27They went out of the city to their vineyards and picked some grapes. They pressed the grapes to make juice, and then they made wine. Then they had a feast in the temple of their god, and they ate a lot of food and drank a lot of wine. Then they cursed Abimelech.

1 Samuel 4:5When the Israeli people saw the men bringing the box into their camp, they were so happy that they shouted loudly. They shouted so loudly that they made the ground shake!

2 Kings 14:12The Israeli army defeated the army of Judah, and all the soldiers of Judah fled and ran back home.

2 Chronicles 28:6In one day the army of Remaliah’s son, King Pekah of Israel, killed 120,000 soldiers in Judah. That happened because the people of Judah had abandoned Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors worshiped.

Job 31:25or that I rejoiced because I had acquired many things and had become very rich,

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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