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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Amos 3:9 - 3:9
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Publish in ... palaces - as being places of greatest resort (compare Mat 10:27); and also as it is the sin of princes that he arraigns, he calls on princes (the occupants of the “palaces”) to be the witnesses.
Ashdod - put for all Philistia. Convene the Philistine and the Egyptian magnates, from whom I have on various occasions rescued Israel. (The opposite formula to “Tell it not in Gath,” namely, lest the heathen should glory over Israel). Even these idolaters, in looking on your enormities, will condemn you; how much more will the holy God?
upon the mountains of Samaria - on the hills surrounding and commanding the view of Samaria, the metropolis of the ten tribes, which was on a lower hill (Amo 4:1; 1Ki 16:24). The mountains are to be the tribunal on which the Philistines and Egyptians are to sit aloft to have a view of your crimes, so as to testify to the justice of your punishment (Amo 3:13).
tumults - caused by the violence of the princes of Israel in “oppressions” of the poor (Job 35:9; Ecc 4:1).