Amos 3:10

Amos 3:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
• New International Version (NIV)“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)"They do not know how to do right," declares the Lord, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."
• New King James Version (NKJV)For they do not know to do right,’ Says the Lord, ‘Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.’ ”

Context of Amos 3:10

8A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy? 9Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see the great tumults within her and the oppressions in her midst. But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.” 11Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “An enemy, even one surrounding the land, Will pull down your strength from you And your citadels will be looted.” 12Thus says the Lord, “Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear, So will the sons of Israel dwelling in Samaria be snatched away-- With the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!

Amos 3:10 word by word

וְלֹֽא־יָדְע֥וּ עֲשׂוֹת־נְכֹחָ֖ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הָאֽוֹצְרִ֛ים חָמָ֥ס וָשֹׁ֖ד בְּאַרְמְנֽוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ פRead the interlinear

• do not knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• how to doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• whatנָכֹחַnâkôach · straightforwardH5228
• declaresנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• hoardאָצַר'âtsar · to storeH686
• violenceחָמָסchâmâs · violenceH2555
• and devastationשֹׁדshôd shôd · violenceH7701
• in their citadelsאַרְמוֹן'armôn · citadel: fortressH759

Cross-references for Amos 3:10

• Psalms 14:4Do all the workers of wickedness not know, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the Lord?
• Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”
• Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the Lord Or the ordinance of their God.
• 2 Peter 3:5For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
• Habakkuk 2:8Because you have looted many nations, All the remainder of the peoples will loot you-- Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.
• Zephaniah 1:9And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold, Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.
• Zechariah 5:3Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.
• James 5:3Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!

Commentaries on Amos 3:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10For they know not to do right - So we may naturally say that they who are doing wrong, and to their own prejudice and ruin, must certainly be ignorant of what is right, and what is their own interest. But we say again "There are none so blind as those who will not see." Their eyes, saith the Lord, they have closed.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10For - (and) they know not to do right They “have not known,” they have least all sense and knowledge, how “to do right” (literally, what is “straight-forward”) because they had so long ceased to do it. It is part of the miserable blindness of sin, that, while the soul acquires a quick insight into evil, it becomes, at last, not paralyzed only to “do” good, but unable to perceive it. So Jeremiah says, “they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day of visitation, and in that day, all they are proud of, and put confidence in, shall fail them. God will inquire into the sins of which they have been guilty in their houses, the robbery they have stored up, and the luxury in which they lived. The pomp…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10Israel’s wealthy people gained their riches by neglecting the poor and by treating the helpless with cruelty (see Amos 2:6–8).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. know not to do--Their moral corruption blinds their power of discernment so that they cannot do right (Jr 4:22). Not simple intellectual ignorance; the defect lay in the heart and will. store up violence and robbery--that is, treasures obtained by "violence and robbery" (Pr 10:2).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Amos 3

• 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