Amos 3:11
Therefore the Lord GOD says: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
World Messianic Bible
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In Context
10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
Cross References
2 Kings 15:19Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings 17:3Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
2 Chronicles 36:19They burned God’s house, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
Isaiah 7:17The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 10:5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Hosea 11:5“They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.
Matthew Henry on Amos 3:10-15
Israel Convicted and Condemned. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord , who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee,… Read the whole commentary →