Amos 2:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

Amos 2:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 24:17
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Jeremiah 48:7
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
Isaiah 40:23
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Jeremiah 48:25
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
Psalms 2:10
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Here is, I. The judgment of Moab, another of the nations that bordered upon Israel. They are reckoned with and shall be punished for three transgressions and for four, as those before. Now, 1. Moab’s fourth transgression, as theirs who were before set to the bar, was cruelty. The instance given refers not to the people of God, but to a heathen like themselves: The king of Moab burnt the bones of t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. the judge--the chief magistrate, the supreme source of justice. “King” not being used, it seems likely a change of government had before this time substituted for kings, supreme judges.