Amos 7:11
in Amos 7for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.
KJV
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
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This verse in Amos 7
Commentary
7 notes on this verseFor thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,.... Which was not saying truth; for Amos said not that Jeroboam should die by the sword, but that God would raise up the sword against his house or family; nor did Jeroboam die by the sword, but his son Zachariah did: and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land; this was true; Amos did say this, and he afterwards confirms it.
This site's exposition
Amos hath conspired against thee
on Amos 7:10-11
Amaziah, priest of the rival shrine at Bethel, reports Amos to Jeroboam as a conspirator whose words the land is not able to bear, and summarizes the sermon accurately as a threat to the throne, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive. The bench notes that Amaziah does not deny the charge is true; he objects that it is intolerable to hear, the priest of the state shrine acting as the king's man rather than the Lord's, the collision the chapter has been building toward since the plumbline fell.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verses 10 onwards) And Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, 'Amos has rebelled against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos says: 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive from their own land.'' Then Amaziah said to Amos 'You seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah. There eat bread, and prophesy there.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
): Amos says (and they have witnesses ready to prove it) Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive; and hence they infer that he is an enemy to his king and country, and not to be tolerated.
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Note, It is no new thing for the accusers of the brethren to misrepresent them as enemies to the king and kingdom, as traitors to their prince and troublers of the land, when really they are the best friends to both. And it is common for designing men to assert that as the sense of the country which is far from being so.
The burden of the word of the Lord may be striven with, but it cannot be shaken off. Let Amaziah rage, and fret, and say what he will to the contrary, Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. Note, it is to no purpose to contend with the judgments of God; for when God judges he will overcome.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
For thus Amos saith - Amos had said, “Thus saith the Lord;” he never fails to impress on them, whose words he is speaking. Amaziah, himself bound up in a system of falsehood and imposture, which, being a creature-worship, gave itself out as the worship of the true God, believed all besides to be fraud. Fraud always suspects fraud; the irreligious think devotion, holiness, saintliness to be hypocrisy: vice imagines virtue to be well-masked vice.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Jeroboam shall die by the sword —But he did not say that, only, “And I will rise upon the house of Jeroboam,” and that refers to his son, Zechariah, who was assassinated by Shallum son of Jabesh (II Kings 15).
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כֹה֙ | khoh | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַ֣ר | ʾamar | he has said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| עָמ֔וֹס | amos | Amos | H5986 → | 7 times |
| בַּחֶ֖רֶב | bacherev | by the sword | H2719 → | 413 times |
| יָמ֣וּת | yamut | he will die | H4191 → | 839 times |
| יָרָבְעָ֑ם | yaraveam | Jeroboam | H3379 → | 104 times |
| וְיִ֨שְׂרָאֵ֔ל | veyisrael | and Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| גָּלֹ֥ה | galoh | certainly <go into exile> | H1540 → | 186 times |
| יִגְלֶ֖ה | yigleh | it will go into exile | H1540 → | 186 times |
| מֵעַ֥ל | meal | from on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ ס | ʾadmato | land its | H127 → | 225 times |
כִּי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
כֹה֙thus
khohH3541 →577 times
אָמַ֣רhe has said
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
עָמ֔וֹסAmos
amosH5986 →7 times
בַּחֶ֖רֶבby the sword
bacherevH2719 →413 times
יָמ֣וּתhe will die
yamutH4191 →839 times
יָרָבְעָ֑םJeroboam
yaraveamH3379 →104 times
וְיִ֨שְׂרָאֵ֔לand Israel
veyisraelH3478 →2507 times
גָּלֹ֥הcertainly <go into exile>
galohH1540 →186 times
יִגְלֶ֖הit will go into exile
yiglehH1540 →186 times
מֵעַ֥לfrom on
mealH5921 →5755 times
אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃ סland its
ʾadmatoH127 →225 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 56:5All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
it leads to
- Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
- Luke 11:54
waiting to catch Him in something He might say.
- Isaiah 29:20–21
For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
- Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
- 2 Peter 3:16
He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest…
- Matthew 22:15
Through
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…
it leads to
- Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- 1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And…
- Deuteronomy 28:64
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…
- Hosea 13:16
About Amos
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Amos; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.