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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)You will be led out through the ruins of the wall; you will be thrown from your fortresses,” says the Lord.

Context of Amos 4:3

1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!” 2The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness: “The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks. You will each go straight out through breaches in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the Lord. 4“Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years. 5Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings— boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do,” declares the Sovereign Lord.

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 wall was broken through, and the whole army fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,
• Ezekiel 12:5While they watch, dig through the wall and take your belongings out through it.
• 2 Kings 7:7So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.
• Isaiah 2:20In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
• Isaiah 31:7For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.
• Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.
• Matthew 16:26What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

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