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 live on Mount Samaria. You women oppress the poor and abuse the needy. You say to your husbands, “Get some wine! Let’s drink!” 2The Almighty Lord has taken an oath on his holiness: Surely, the time is going to come when you will be taken away on hooks, and the rest of you on fishhooks. Each of you will leave ⌞the city⌟ through breaks in the wall, one woman ahead of another. You will be thrown into a garbage dump. The Lord declares this. 4Go to Bethel and sin. Go to Gilgal and sin even more. Bring your sacrifices every morning. Bring a tenth of your income every three days. 5Burn bread as a thank offering. Brag and boast about your freewill offerings. This is what you people of Israel love to do. The Almighty Lord declares this.

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 25:4The enemy broke through the city walls that night. All Judah’s soldiers left on the road of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden. While the Babylonians were attacking the city from all sides, the king took the road to the plain ⌞of Jericho⌟.
• Ezekiel 12:5Dig a hole through the wall of your house, and leave through it.
• 2 Kings 7:7So at dusk they fled. They abandoned the camp as it was with its tents, horses, and donkeys and ran for their lives.)
• Isaiah 2:20On that day people will throw to the moles and the bats the silver and gold idols that they made for themselves to worship.
• Isaiah 31:7When that day comes, all of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your sinful hands have made.
• Zephaniah 1:18Their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord’s overflowing fury. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery anger, because he will put an end, a frightening end, to those who live on earth.
• Matthew 16:26What good will it do for people to win the whole world and lose their lives? Or what will a person give in exchange for 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