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Selected Verse: Amos 3:10 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Am 3:10 |
Strong Concordance |
For they know [03045] not to do [06213] right [05229], saith [05002] the LORD [03068], who store [0686] up violence [02555] and robbery [07701] in their palaces [0759]. |
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King James |
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
know not to do--Their moral corruption blinds their power of discernment so that they cannot do right (Jer 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" (Pro 10:2). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For - (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 knowledge" Jer 4:22. Whence of the Christian Paul says, "I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil" Rom 16:19. People, step by step, lose the power of understanding either good or evil, the love of the world or the love of God. Either becomes "a strange language" to ears accustomed to the "songs of Zion" or the din of the world. When our Lord and God came to His own, they said, "we know that God spake unto Moses: as for this man we know not whence He is" Joh 9:29. And this blindness was brought about by covetousness which "blindeth the eyes" even of "the wise" Exo 23:8, as he adds;
Who store - (Literally, with indignation, "the storers"
With violence and robbery - They could not understand what was right, while they habitually did what was wrong. They "stored up," as they deemed, the gains and fruits; the robbery and injustice they saw not, because they turned away from seeing. But what is "stored" up, is not what wastes away, but what abides. Who doubts it? Then, what they treasured, were not the perishing things of earth, but, in truth, the sins themselves, as "a treasure of wrath against the Day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God" Rom 2:5. Strange treasure, to be so diligently accumulated, guarded, multiplied! Yet it is, in fact, all which remains. "So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God" Luk 12:21. He adds, as an aggravation, "in their palaces." Deformed as in all oppression, yet to "oppress the poor, to increase his riches" Pro 22:16, has an unnatural hideousness of its own. What was wrung from the poor, laid up "in places!" Yet what else is it to cheapen luxuries at the cost of the wages of the poor? |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Store up - As men lay up wealth in their treasures, perverting judgment, first condemning the innocent, next seizing all his substance. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For 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. |
2 Treasures [0214] of wickedness [07562] profit [03276] nothing: but righteousness [06666] delivereth [05337] from death [04194].
22 For my people [05971] is foolish [0191], they have not known [03045] me; they are sottish [05530] children [01121], and they have none understanding [0995]: they are wise [02450] to do evil [07489], but to do good [03190] they have no knowledge [03045].
16 He that oppresseth [06231] the poor [01800] to increase [07235] his riches, and he that giveth [05414] to the rich [06223], shall surely come to want [04270].
21 So [3779] is he that layeth up treasure [2343] for himself [1438], and [2532] is [4147] not [3361] rich [4147] toward [1519] God [2316].
5 But [1161] after [2596] thy [4675] hardness [4643] and [2532] impenitent [279] heart [2588] treasurest up [2343] unto thyself [4572] wrath [3709] against [1722] the day [2250] of wrath [3709] and [2532] revelation [602] of the righteous judgment [1341] of God [2316];
8 And thou shalt take [03947] no gift [07810]: for the gift [07810] blindeth [05786] the wise [06493], and perverteth [05557] the words [01697] of the righteous [06662].
29 We [2249] know [1492] that [3754] God [2316] spake [2980] unto Moses [3475]: as for this [1161] [5126] fellow, we know [1492] not [3756] from whence [4159] he is [2076].
19 For [1063] your [5216] obedience [5218] is come abroad [864] unto [1519] all [3956] men. I am glad [5463] therefore [3767] on [1909] your [5213] behalf [1909]: but yet [1161] I would have [2309] you [5209] wise [4680] unto [1519] that which is [1511] good [3303] [18], and [1161] simple [185] concerning [1519] evil [2556].
22 For my people [05971] is foolish [0191], they have not known [03045] me; they are sottish [05530] children [01121], and they have none understanding [0995]: they are wise [02450] to do evil [07489], but to do good [03190] they have no knowledge [03045].