Amos 2:3

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will cut off the judge from the landand kill all its officials with him.The Lord has spoken.

Hebrew Names Version
And I will cut off the judge from their midst, And will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD.

King James Version
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord .

English Standard Version
I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says the Lord .

New American Standard Bible
"I will also eliminate the judge from her midst And slay all her leaders with him," says the LORD.

New Century Version
So I will bring an end to the king of Moab, and I will kill all its leaders with him," says the Lord .

Amplified Bible
"I will also cut off and destroy the ruler from its midst And slay all the princes with him," says the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will cut off the iudge out of the mids thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, sayth the Lord.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will also cut off the judge from her midst And slay all her princes with him," says the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will also cut off the judge from her midstAnd kill all her princes with him," says Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
I will cut off the ruler from its midst and kill all the officials with him," says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
with its king and leaders. I, the Lord , have spoken!

Complete Jewish Bible
I will cut off the judge from among them and kill all his princes with him," says Adonai .

Darby Translation
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
So I will bring an end to the kings of Moab, and I will kill all the leaders of Moab." This is what the Lord said.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will cut off the judge from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the LORD.

Good News Translation
I will kill the ruler of Moab and all the leaders of the land."

Lexham English Bible
And I will cut off the ruler from its midst and I will kill all of its officials with him," says Yahweh.

Literal Translation
And I will cut off the judge in its midst, and I will kill all his rulers with him, says Jehovah.

American Standard Version
and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
And I will cut off the iudge from the middest thereof, and wil slay all the princes thereof with him, sayeth the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I will cut of the iudge out of the mids therof, and wil slay all the princes therof with him, sayth the Lorde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.

English Revised Version
and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

World English Bible
And I will cut off the judge from their midst, And will kill all its princes with him," says Yahweh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal leese a iuge of the myddis therof, and Y schal sle with it alle the princes therof, seith the Lord.

Update Bible Version
and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, says Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will slay all its princes with him, saith the LORD.

New English Translation
I will remove Moab's leader; I will kill all Moab's officials with him." The Lord has spoken!

New King James Version
And I will cut off the judge from its midst, And slay all its princes with him," Says the LORD.

New Living Translation
And I will destroy their king and slaughter all their princes," says the Lord .

New Life Bible
I will kill the ruler of Moab and all his sons with him," says the Lord.

New Revised Standard
I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its officials with him, says the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will cut off the judge out of her midst, and, all her rulers, will I slay with him, saith Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him," says the LORD.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have cut off a judge from her midst, And all its heads I slay with him, said Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I will rote out the iudge from amoge them, and slaye all his prynces with him, sayeth the LORDE.

Contextual Overview

¹ God 's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Moab —make that four—I'm not putting up with her any longer. She violated the corpse of Edom's king, burning it to cinders. For that, I'm burning down Moab, burning down the forts of Kerioth. Moab will die in the shouting, go out in the blare of war trumpets. I'll remove the king from the center and kill all his princes with him." God 's Decree. ⁴ God 's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Judah —make that four—I'm not putting up with them any longer. They rejected God 's revelation, refused to keep my commands. But they swallowed the same old lies that got their ancestors onto dead-end roads. For that, I'm burning down Judah, burning down all the forts of Jerusalem." ⁶ God 's Message: "Because of the three great sins of Israel —make that four—I'm not putting up with them any longer. They buy and sell upstanding people. People for them are only things—ways of making money. They'd sell a poor man for a pair of shoes. They'd sell their own grandmother! They grind the penniless into the dirt, shove the luckless into the ditch. Everyone and his brother sleeps with the ‘sacred whore'— a sacrilege against my Holy Name. Stuff they've extorted from the poor is piled up at the shrine of their god, While they sit around drinking wine they've conned from their victims.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 24:17, Jeremiah 48:7, Jeremiah 48:25

Reciprocal: Isaiah 3:2 - mighty Micah 5:1 - judge

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God had finished his work. On the seventh day he rested from all his work. God blessed the seventh day. He made it a Holy Day Because on that day he rested from his work, all the creating God had done. This is the story of how it all started, of Heaven and Earth when they were created.

Genesis 2:8
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.

Genesis 2:10
A river flows out of Eden to water the garden and from there divides into four rivers. The first is named Pishon; it flows through Havilah where there is gold. The gold of this land is good. The land is also known for a sweet-scented resin and the onyx stone. The second river is named Gihon; it flows through the land of Cush. The third river is named Hiddekel and flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:15
God took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order.

Genesis 2:21
God put the Man into a deep sleep. As he slept he removed one of his ribs and replaced it with flesh. God then used the rib that he had taken from the Man to make Woman and presented her to the Man.

Exodus 23:12
"Work for six days and rest the seventh so your ox and donkey may rest and your servant and migrant workers may have time to get their needed rest.

Exodus 34:21
"Work six days and rest the seventh. Stop working even during plowing and harvesting.

Leviticus 23:3
"Work six days. The seventh day is a Sabbath, a day of total and complete rest, a sacred assembly. Don't do any work. Wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to God .

Proverbs 10:22
God 's blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof,.... Either from the midst of Moab, the country in general; or from Kerioth in particular, so Kimchi; meaning their principal governor, their king, as Aben Ezra; for kings sometimes have acted as judges, took the bench, and sat and administered justice to their subjects:

and I will stay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord; the king, and the princes of the blood, and his nobles; so that there should be none to succeed him, or to protect and defend the people; the destruction should be an entire one, and inevitable, for the mouth of the Lord had spoken it. This was fulfilled at the same time as the prophecy against the children of Ammon by Nebuchadnezzar, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem o, which is next threatened.

o Joseph. Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7. Vid. Judith i. 12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will cut off the judge - The title “judge” (shophet) is nowhere used absolutely of a king. Holy Scripture speaks in several places of “all the judges of the earth” Job 9:24; Psalms 2:10; Psalms 148:11; Proverbs 8:16; Isaiah 40:23. Hosea Hosea 13:10, under “judges,” includes “kings and princes,” as judging the people. The word “judge” is always used as one invested with the highest, but not regal authority, as of all the judges from the death of Joshua to Samuel. In like way it (Sufetes) was the title of the chief magistrates of Carthage , with much the same authority as the Roman Consuls . The Phoenician histories, although they would not own that Nebuchadnezzar conquered Tyre, still own that, after his 13 years’ siege , Baal reigned 10 years, and after him judges were set up, one for two months, a second for ten, a third, a high priest, for three, two more for six, and between these one reigned for a year. After his death, they sent for Merbaal from Babylon, who reigned for four years, and on his death, they sent for Hiram his brother who reigned for twenty. The judges then exercised the supreme authority, the king’s sons having been carried away captive. Probably, then, when Jeroboam II recovered the old territory of Israel, Moab lost its kings. It agrees with this, that Amos says, “the princes thereof,” literally, “her princes,” the princes of Moab, not as of Ammon, “his princes,” that is, the princes of the king.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 2:3. I will cut off the judge — It shall be so destroyed, that it shall never more have any form of government. The judge here, שופטים shophet, may signify the chief magistrate. The chief magistrates of the Carthaginians were called suffetes; probably taken from the Hebrew JUDGES, shophetim.