Amos 3:12 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 3:12

This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

BSB

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ASV

Thus saith Jehovah: As the shepherd rescueth out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion - Scarcely any of you shall escape; and those that do shall do so with extreme difficulty, just as a shepherd, of a whole sheep carried away by a lion, can recover no more than two of its legs, or a piece of its ear, just enough to prove by the marks on those parts, that they belonged to a sheep which was his own.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(1.) Their country shall be invaded and ruined; and observe how the punishment answers to the sin. [1.] Great tumults are in the midst of the land, and therefore an adversary shall be even round about the land; the Assyrian forces shall surround it and break in upon it on every side.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Those that stretch themselves lazily upon their couches when God's judgments are abroad shall go captive with the first that go captive. Notice is given of it to themselves,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The parallelism of "Samaria" to "Damascus," and the Septuagint favor English Version rather than GESENIUS: "on a damask couch." The Hebrew pointing, though generally expressing damask, may express the city "Damascus"; and many manuscripts point it so.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֹּה֮	koh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָה֒	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כַּאֲשֶׁר֩	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
יַצִּ֨יל	ya.Tzil	he delivers	H5337 →
הָרֹעֶ֜ה	ha.ro.'Eh	the shepherd	H7462 →
מִפִּ֧י	mi.Pi	from [the] mouth of	H6310 →
הָאֲרִ֛י	ha.'a.Ri	<the> lion	H738 →
שְׁתֵּ֥י	she.Tei	two	H8147 →
כְרָעַ֖יִם	khe.ra.'A.yim	legs	H3767 →
א֣וֹ	'o	or	H176 →
בְדַל־	ve.dal-	a piece of	H915 →
אֹ֑זֶן	'O.zen	an ear	H241 →
כֵּ֣ן	ken	so	H3651 →
יִנָּצְל֞וּ	yi.na.tze.Lu	they will be delivered	H5337 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
הַיֹּֽשְׁבִים֙	hai.yo.she.Vim	who dwell	H3427 →
בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן	be.Sho.me.Ron	in Samaria	H8111 →
בִּפְאַ֥ת	bif.'At	with a corner of	H6285 →
מִטָּ֖ה	mi.Tah	a bed	H4296 →
וּבִדְמֶ֥שֶׁק	u.vid.Me.shek	and with silk of	H1833 →
עָֽרֶשׂ׃	'A.res	a couch	H6210 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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
Isaiah 31:4
For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not…
leads to
- Amos 3:8
  The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?
- Hosea 11:10
  They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.
- Zechariah 2:5
  For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
- Isaiah 42:13
  The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:
- Zechariah 12:8
  On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of…
Through
1 Kings 20:30
The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 18:24
  Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”
- 1 Kings 22:25
  Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”
- Luke 13:4
  Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

About Amos

The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Amos

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Amos