Amos 8:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

Amos 8:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:23
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Amos 6:9-10
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. …
Jeremiah 9:21-22
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. …
Amos 5:16
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

The great reason why sinners defer their repentance de die in diem—from day to day, is because they think God thus defers his judgments, and there is no song wherewith they so effectually sing themselves asleep as that, My Lord delays his coming; and therefore God, by his prophets, frequently represents to Israel the day of his wrath not only as just and certain, but as very near and hastening on…

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

(vv. 3)

3. songs of ... temple--(Am 5:23). The joyous hymns in the temple of Judah (or rather, in the Beth-el “royal temple,” Am 7:13; for the allusion is to Israel, not Judah, throughout this chapter) shall be changed into “howlings.” Grotius translates, “palace”; compare Am 6:5, as to the songs there. But Am 5:23, and Am 7:13, favor English Version. they shall cast them forth with silence--not as the Ma…