Amos 4:3
in Amos 4You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, saith Jehovah.
KJV
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.
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This verse in Amos 4
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Ye shall go out through the breaches - Samaria, the place of their ease and confidence, being broken through, they should go forth one by one, “each straight before her,” looking neither to the right nor to the left, as a herd of cows go one after the other through a gap in a fence. Help and hope have vanished, and they hurry pell-mell after one another, reckless and desperate, as the animals whose life of sense they had chosen.
This site's exposition
ye kine of Bashan
on Amos 4:1-3
Amos names the wealthy women of Samaria kine of Bashan, cattle fattened on that region's famous pasture, sleek and demanding, who press their husbands for wine while the poor go crushed beneath them. The bench reads the insult as aimed at appetite rather than at sex as such, a whole class fed fat on extortion. The oath answers the picture with hooks and fishhooks, the captors leading the fattened women out through breaches in the wall the way a fisherman strings his catch, each led out in her turn to be cast beyond the ruined palace.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Rather, "ye shall cast yourselves into the palace," so as to escape from it out of the city [CALVIN]. The palace, the scene of the princes' riots (Am 3:10, 15; 4:1), is to be the scene of their ignominious flight.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּפְרָצִ֥ים | uferatzim | and breaches | H6556 → | |
| תֵּצֶ֖אנָה | tetzenah | you will go out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| אִשָּׁ֣ה | ʾishah | each | H802 → | |
| נֶגְדָּ֑הּ | negdah | before herself | H5048 → | |
| וְהִשְׁלַכְתֶּ֥נָה | vehishlakhtenah | and you will throw | H7993 → | |
| הַהַרְמ֖וֹנָה | haharmonah | <the> Harmon towards | H2038 → | |
| נְאֻם־ | neum- | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וּפְרָצִ֥יםand breaches
uferatzimH6556 →
תֵּצֶ֖אנָהyou will go out
tetzenahH3318 →1067 times
אִשָּׁ֣הeach
ʾishahH802 →
נֶגְדָּ֑הּbefore herself
negdahH5048 →
וְהִשְׁלַכְתֶּ֥נָהand you will throw
vehishlakhtenahH7993 →
הַהַרְמ֖וֹנָה<the> Harmon towards
haharmonahH2038 →
נְאֻם־[the] utterance of
neum-H5002 →376 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 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
Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
it leads to
- Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Mark 8:36–37
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
- Luke 9:25
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- Luke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Psalms 49:7–8
No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
- Job 27:8
Through
Ezekiel 12:12And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he…
it leads to
- 2 Kings 25:4
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden.…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Kings 25:4
Through
Isaiah 31:7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
it leads to
- Isaiah 2:20
In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 30:22
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- Isaiah 2:20
About Amos
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.