Amos 4:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 4:1 —

Old words in this verse

kine: — cows, cattle.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
Amos 6:1
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Ezekiel 39:18
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Bashan Beggars Cattle Citizens Cow Kine (bovine)

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

It is here foretold, in the name of God, that oppressors shall be humbled and idolaters shall be hardened. I. That proud oppressors shall be humbled for their oppressions: for he that does wrong shall receive according to the wrong that he has done. Now observe, 1. How their sin is described, Amos 4:1. They are compared to the kine of Bashan, which were a breed of cattle very large and strong, esp…

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

(vv. 1)

Am 4:1-13. Denunciation of Israel’s Nobles for Oppression; and of the Whole Nation for Idolatry; and for Their Being Unreformed Even by God’s Judgments: Therefore They Must Prepare for the Last and Worst Judgment of All. 1. kine of Bashan--fat and wanton cattle such as the rich pasture of Bashan (east of Jordan, between Hermon and Gilead) was famed for (De 32:14; Psa 22:12; Eze 39:18). Figurative…