Amos · 16 verses
Amos 2
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Nazirites are made to drink wine, prophets are ordered to stop prophesying, and at the end even the bravest mighty men flee naked: the sacred arrangements have been given a remarkably bad afternoon.
Fire for Moab and Judahvv. 1–5
Moab’s judgment begins with a grimly particular offence: the bones of Edom’s king were burned until they became lime. Fire will consume the citadels of Kerioth, war will roar, the ruler and officials will be cut off, and Moab will die amid the noise. Judah receives fire for rejecting the Law of the LORD and following the lies of its fathers; Jerusalem’s citadels are named for destruction.
What Israel did with its giftsvv. 6–12
Israel is accused of selling the righteous and shoving the needy aside, while a man and his father profane the holy name with the same girl. Garments taken in pledge lie beside every altar, and wine obtained through fines is drunk in the house of God. Against this stands what the LORD did for them: destroying the Amorite, bringing them from Egypt through forty years in the wilderness, and raising prophets and Nazirites from among them. Israel’s answer was to make the Nazirites drink wine and silence the prophets—a curious rearrangement of duties, and not an improvement.
No escape by speed, strength, bow, or horsevv. 13–16
The coming judgment is compared to a cart full of grain crushing the place beneath it. Speed will fail, strength will not prevail, the mighty will not save his life, the archer will not stand, and neither fleet feet nor a horse will provide an exit. Even the bravest mighty man will flee naked on that day, which is a very thorough removal of ceremony.
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Amos 2:1This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
Amos 2:2So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.
Amos 2:3I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.
Amos 2:4This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
Amos 2:5So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
Amos 2:6This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
Amos 2:9Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
Amos 2:10And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
Amos 2:11I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
Amos 2:12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Amos 2:13Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
Amos 2:14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
Amos 2:15The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.
Amos 2:16Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.
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- 8Deuteronomy 24:12–17If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
- 4Ezekiel 20:24For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
- 8Exodus 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
- 6Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- 10Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- 1Zephaniah 2:8–9“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
- 4Ezekiel 20:16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
- 5Hosea 8:14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
- 5Jeremiah 17:27But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
- 10Exodus 12:51And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
- 1Ezekiel 25:8–9This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
- 1Amos 1:3This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
- 2Jeremiah 48:24upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of Moab, those far and near.
- 2Jeremiah 48:41Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- 7Amos 5:12For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- 9Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
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