Tree of Life Version
Amos 6:3
3Dismissing the day of calamity, you bring near the throne of violence.
Amos 6:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
- New International Version (NIV)You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.
- English Standard Version (ESV)O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near;
Context of Amos 6:3
1Oy ! You who are at ease in Zion, trusting in Samaria’s hill! Distinguished ones of the foremost of nations— to whom the house of Israel comes 2Go over to Calneh and look. From there go to great Hamath, go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory larger than yours? Dismissing the day of calamity, you bring near the throne of violence. 4Reclining on beds of ivory, sprawling on their couches, dining on lambs from the flock and calves from amid the stall, 5chanting to the sound of harp like David, inventing their own instruments of song,
Read all of Amos 6Amos 6:3 word by word
הַֽמְנַדִּ֖ים לְי֣וֹם רָ֑ע וַתַּגִּישׁ֖וּן שֶׁ֥בֶת חָמָֽס׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Amos 6:3
- Amos 5:18Oy to you—longing for the Day of Adonai! What would it be for you? The Day of Adonai will be darkness and not light.
- Amos 9:10By the sword shall all the sinners of My people die, those who say: ‘The calamity will not overtake or confront us.’
- Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence against a crime is not swiftly carried out, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
- Isaiah 47:7You said, “Forever, I will be the eternal mistress-queen!” You did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
- Isaiah 56:12“Come, let’s get wine, let’s guzzle strong drink. Tomorrow will be like today, only even better!”
- Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is that proverb you people have in the land of Israel saying, ‘The days are prolonged and every vision fails?’
- Matthew 24:48But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking a long time,’
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.
- 2 Peter 3:4and saying, “Where is this promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers died, everything goes on just as it has from the beginning of creation.”
- Revelation 18:17For in a single hour so much wealth has been ruined!” And every ship captain and passenger, sailors and all who make their living at sea, stood at a distance
- Amos 6:12Will horses run on the cliff? Will one plow there with oxen? Yet you turned justice into venom, the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.
- Amos 5:12For I know your crimes are many and your sins countless— afflicting the righteous, taking bribes, and turning the needy aside at the gate.
- Psalms 94:20Can a throne of corruption be aligned with You—planning distress by decree?
Commentaries on Amos 6:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Ye that put far away the evil day - Wo to you who will not consider the day of approaching vengeance; but continue in your iniquity, and harden your hearts. Ye bring your iniquities nearer, and still suppose your punishment to be at a greater distance.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Ye that put far away - Probably “with aversion.” They bade that day as it were, be gone. The Hebrew idiom expresses, how they would put it off, if they could; as far as in them lay, they “assigned a distance to it,, although they could not remove the day itself. The “evil day” is that same “day of the Lord,” which the scoffers or misbelievers professed to long for Amos 5:18. The thought that the Lord has a Day, in which to judge man, frets or frightens…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3day of calamity (literally seat of violence): By this phrase, Amos either meant that: Israel's actions may have sped up the Assyrian conquest's violence, or the people might have ignored the looming disaster, leading to everyday violence against the poor.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Ye persuade yourselves that "the evil day" foretold by the prophets is "far off," though they declare it near (Eze 12:22, 27). Ye in your imagination put it far off, and therefore bring near violent oppression, suffering it to sit enthroned, as it were, among you (Psa 94:20). The notion of judgment being far off has always been an incentive to the sinner's recklessness of living (Ec 8:12, 13; Mt 24:48). Yet that very recklessness brings near the evil…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 6
- 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
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