Amos 5:10
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
BSB
ASV
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
KJV
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Commentary on Amos (420)
(Verse 10) They hated the one who reproves at the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks truthfully. LXX: They hated the one who reproves at the gates, and they abhorred the holy word. These are the ones whom God derides with devastation and brings upon them destruction. They hate the one who reproves at the gate, that is, in judgment: either me, or other prophets who were sent to them, speaking truthfully or the flawless word, as Symmachus interpreted, or the holy speech, as Theodotion and the LXX translated.
They hate him that rebukes in the gate, in the gate of the Lord's house, or in their courts of justice, or in the places of concourse, where Wisdom is lifting up her voice, Prov. i. Reprovers in the gate are reprovers by office; these they hated, counting them their enemies because they told them the truth, as Ahab hated Micaiah.
A mirrored structure
Amos 5:7Amos 5 chiasm inner pair: turning justice to wormwood mirrors hating the reprover in the gate.
de Waard, VT 27 (1977): 170-177
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
leads to
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
Through
Isaiah 29:21those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
leads to
There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
Through
1 Kings 22:8The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son…
leads to
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
