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 me, you fat cows living in Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who are always calling to your husbands, “Bring us another drink!” 2The Sovereign Lord has sworn this by his holiness: “The time will come when you will be led away with hooks in your noses. Every last one of you will be dragged away like a fish on a hook! You will be led out through the ruins of the wall; you will be thrown from your fortresses,” says the Lord. 4“Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel. Keep on disobeying at Gilgal. Offer sacrifices each morning, and bring your tithes every three days. 5Present your bread made with yeast as an offering of thanksgiving. Then give your extra voluntary offerings so you can brag about it everywhere! This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do,” says 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 a section of the city wall was broken down. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians, the soldiers waited for nightfall and escaped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden. Then they headed toward the Jordan Valley.
• Ezekiel 12:5Dig a hole through the wall while they are watching and go out through it.
• 2 Kings 7:7So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.
• Isaiah 2:20On that day of judgment they will abandon the gold and silver idols they made for themselves to worship. They will leave their gods to the rodents and bats,
• Isaiah 31:7I know the glorious day will come when each of you will throw away the gold idols and silver images your sinful hands have made.
• Zephaniah 1:18Your silver and gold will not save you on that day of the Lord’s anger. For the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. He will make a terrifying end of all the people on earth.
• Matthew 16:26And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your 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