Amoschapter 2
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Original Language
Amos 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Amos 2. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Read here as the Haftarah
- Amos 2:6 to 3:8, with the portion Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1 to 40:23).
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Moab burned the bones of Edom's king to lime1
Amos 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Judah despised the law and followed lies4
Amos 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Israel sold the righteous for silver, the poor for a pair of shoes6
Amos 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
I destroyed the Amorite — and you made the Nazirites drink9
Amos 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 2:11
as Nazirites — Jonathan renders: as teachers. For they were separated from the ways of the people of the land and were engaged in the Torah. The expression נְזִירָה is everywhere only an expression of separation.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Amos 2:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Amos 2:12
And you gave the Nazirites to drink wine —lest they instruct you, for a drunken man is forbidden to instruct. And you gave the Nazirites to drink wine — Jonathan renders: And you misled your teachers with wine.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Pressed down: the swift and the strong will not escape13
Amos 2:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Amos 2:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible