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Selected Verse: Amos 8:3 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Am 8:3 |
Strong Concordance |
And the songs [07892] of the temple [01964] shall be howlings [03213] in that day [03117], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]: there shall be many [07227] dead bodies [06297] in every place [04725]; they shall cast them forth [07993] with silence [02013]. |
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King James |
And 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. |
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] |
songs of . . . temple-- (Amo 5:23). The joyous hymns in the temple of Judah (or rather, in the Beth-el "royal temple," Amo 7:13; for the allusion is to Israel, not Judah, throughout this chapter) shall be changed into "howlings." GROTIUS translates, "palace"; compare Amo 6:5, as to the songs there. But Amo 5:23, and Amo 7:13, favor English Version.
they shall cast them forth with silence--not as the Margin, "be silent." It is an adverb, "silently." There shall be such great slaughter as even to prevent the bodies being buried [CALVIN]. There shall be none of the usual professional mourners (Amo 5:16), but the bodies will be cast out in silence. Perhaps also is meant that terror, both of God (compare Amo 6:10) and of the foe, shall close their lips. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The songs of the temple shall be howlings - Literally, "shall howl." It shall be, as when mirthful music is suddenly broken in upon, and, through the sudden agony of the singer, ends in a shriek or yell of misery. When sounds of joy are turned into wailing, all must be complete sorrow. They are not hushed only, but are turned into their opposite. Since Amos is speaking to, and of, Israel, "the temple" is, doubtless, here the great idol-temple at Bethel, and "the songs" were the choral music, with which they counterfeited the temple-music, as arranged by David, praising (they could not make up their minds which,) Nature or "the God of nature," but, in truth, worshiping the creature. The temple was often strongly built and on a height, and, whether from a vague hope of help from God, (as in the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans,) or from some human trust, that the temple might be respected, or from confidence in its strength, or from all together, was the last refuge of the all-but-captive people. Their last retreat was often the scene of the last reeling strife, the battle-cry of the assailants, the shrieks of the defenseless, the groans of the wounded, the agonized cry of unyielding despair. Some such scene the prophet probably had before his mind's eye, for he adds;
There shall be "many dead bodies," literally, "Many the corpse in every place." He sees it, not as future, but before him. The whole city, now so thronged with life, "the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely," lies before him as one scene of death; every place thronged with corpses; none exempt; at home, abroad, or, which he had just spoken of, the temple; no time, no place for honorable burial. "They," literally, "he casts forth, hush!" Each casts forth those dear to him, as "dung on the face of the earth" (Jer 8:2, etc.). Grief is too strong for words. Living and dead are hushed as the grave. "Large cities are large solitudes," for want of mutual love; in God's retribution, all their din and hum becomes anew a solitude. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
With silence - So great will be the cruelty of the enemy, that they dare not bury them, or if they do, it must be undiscerned. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The songs of the temple - Instead of שירות shiroth, songs, Houbigant reads שורות shoroth, the singing women; and Newcome follows him: "And the singing women of the palace shall howl in that day." Instead of joyous songs, they shall have nothing but lamentation.
They shall cast them forth with silence - Every place shall be filled with the dead, and a dreadful silence shall reign universally; the few that remain being afraid either to speak or complain, or even to chant a funeral dirge for the most respectable of the dead. |
10 And a man's uncle [01730] shall take him up [05375], and he that burneth [05635] him, to bring out [03318] the bones [06106] out of the house [01004], and shall say [0559] unto him that is by the sides [03411] of the house [01004], Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say [0559], No [0657]. Then shall he say [0559], Hold thy tongue [02013]: for we may not make mention [02142] of the name [08034] of the LORD [03068].
16 Therefore the LORD [03068], the God [0430] of hosts [06635], the Lord [0136], saith [0559] thus; Wailing [04553] shall be in all streets [07339]; and they shall say [0559] in all the highways [02351], Alas [01930]! alas [01930]! and they shall call [07121] the husbandman [0406] to mourning [060], and such as are skilful [03045] of lamentation [05092] to wailing [04553].
13 But prophesy [05012] not again [03254] any more at Bethel [01008]: for it is the king's [04428] chapel [04720], and it is the king's [04467] court [01004].
23 Take thou away [05493] from me the noise [01995] of thy songs [07892]; for I will not hear [08085] the melody [02172] of thy viols [05035].
5 That chant [06527] to the sound [06310] of the viol [05035], and invent [02803] to themselves instruments [03627] of musick [07892], like David [01732];
13 But prophesy [05012] not again [03254] any more at Bethel [01008]: for it is the king's [04428] chapel [04720], and it is the king's [04467] court [01004].
23 Take thou away [05493] from me the noise [01995] of thy songs [07892]; for I will not hear [08085] the melody [02172] of thy viols [05035].
2 And they shall spread [07849] them before the sun [08121], and the moon [03394], and all the host [06635] of heaven [08064], whom they have loved [0157], and whom they have served [05647], and after [0310] whom they have walked [01980], and whom they have sought [01875], and whom they have worshipped [07812]: they shall not be gathered [0622], nor be buried [06912]; they shall be for dung [01828] upon the face [06440] of the earth [0127].