Amos 4:3

Amos 4:3 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)You will each go straight out through breaches in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And you shall go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead; and you shall be cast out into Harmon," declares the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You will go out through broken walls, Each one straight ahead of her, And you will be cast into Harmon,” Says the Lord.

Context of Amos 4:3

1Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink.” 2The Lord God has sworn by his holiness: Look, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, every last one of you with fishhooks. You will go through breaches in the wall, each woman straight ahead, and you will be driven along toward Harmon. This is the Lord’s declaration. 4Come to Bethel and rebel; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tenths every three days. 5Offer leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings, for that is what you Israelites love to do! This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Amos 4:3 word by word

וּפְרָצִ֥ים תֵּצֶ֖אנָה אִשָּׁ֣ה נֶגְדָּ֑הּ וְהִשְׁלַכְתֶּ֥נָה הַהַרְמ֖וֹנָה נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And ye shall go outיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: comeH3318
• at the breachesפֶּ֫רֶץperets · breachH6556
• everyאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · woman: anotherH802
• before her; and ye shall castשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• into the palaceהַרְמוֹןharmôn · HarmonH2038
• saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Amos 4:3

• 2 Kings 25:4Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled at night by way of the city gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,
• Ezekiel 12:5As they watch, dig through the wall and take the bags out through it.
• 2 Kings 7:7So they had gotten up and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents, horses, and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had fled for their lives.
• Isaiah 2:20On that day people will throw their worthless idols of silver and gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and the bats.
• Isaiah 31:7For on that day, every one of you will reject the worthless idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
• Zephaniah 1:18Their silver and their gold will be unable to rescue them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make a complete, yes, a horrifying end of all the inhabitants of the earth.
• Matthew 16:26For what will it benefit someone if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will anyone give in exchange for his life?

Commentaries on Amos 4:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3And ye shall go out at the breaches - Probably the metaphor is here kept up. They shall be caught by the hooks, or by the nets; and though they may make breaches in the latter by their flouncing when caught, they shall be taken out at these very breaches; and cast, not in the palace, but into a reservoir, to be kept awhile, and afterwards be taken out to be destroyed. Samaria itself is the net; your adversaries shall besiege it, and make breaches in its…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Ye 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. And ye shall cast them…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The wall of Samaria, which these women relied on for safety, failed to protect them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. go out at the breaches--namely, of the city walls broken by the enemy. every cow at that which is before her--figurative for the once luxurious nobles (compare "kine of Bashan," Am 4:1) shall go out each one right before her; not through the gates, but each at the breach before him, not turning to the right or left, apart from one another. ye shall cast them into the palace--"them," that is, "your posterity," from Am 4:2. You yourselves shall escape…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Gap
• Prepare
• Amos (1)
• Palace

Commentaries on Amos 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings