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? My Lord Adonai has spoken, who shall not prophesy? 9Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and the citadels in the land of Egypt: “Assemble on Samaria’s mountains: Behold the great tumult within it, even the oppression within it.” They do not know how to be honest, —declares Adonai— those who are saving up violence and destruction in their citadels. 11Therefore thus says my Lord Adonai: “An adversary will surround the land! He will bring down your strength. Your citadels will be plundered 12Thus says Adonai: “Just as the shepherd snatches out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so will Bnei-Yisrael dwelling in Samaria escape with the corner of a bed or a head of a couch.

Amos 3:10 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• For they knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• not to doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• rightנְכֹחָהnekôchâh · uprightH5229
• saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• who storeאָצַר'âtsar · to storeH686
• up violenceחָמָסchâmâs · violenceH2555
• and robberyשֹׁדshôd shôd · violenceH7701
• in their palacesאַרְמוֹן'armôn · citadel: fortressH759

Cross-references for Amos 3:10

• Psalms 14:4“Will evildoers never understand— those who consume My people as they eat bread— and never call on Adonai?”
• Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”
• Jeremiah 5:4Then I said: These are only the poor. They are foolish. For they do not know the way of Adonai, the ordinance of their God.
• 2 Peter 3:5For in holding to this idea, it escapes their notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God.
• Habakkuk 2:8Since you looted many nations, all the survivors will plunder you— because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, the city and all its inhabitants.
• Zephaniah 1:9In that day I will punish all who skip over the threshold while filling their master’s House with violence and deceit.
• Zechariah 5:3He said to me: “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land: everyone who steals will be swept away from here according to it, and everyone who swears will be swept away from here according to it.”
• James 5:3Your gold and your silver have rusted and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.

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

Topics related to Amos 3:10

• Dishonesty
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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