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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Amos 3:13

Hear ye and bear witness, throughout the house of Jacob, - Commandeth My Lord, Yahweh, God of hosts:

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inspiration;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Testimony;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Father's House;   Household;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amos;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Day of the Lord;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   Day of Judgment;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amos (1);  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord God All-Powerful says: "Warn the family of Jacob about these things.
New American Standard Bible
"Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Declares the Lord GOD, the God of armies.
New Century Version
"Listen and be witnesses against the family of Jacob," says the Lord God , the God All-Powerful.
New English Translation
Listen and warn the family of Jacob! The sovereign Lord , the God who commands armies, is speaking!
Update Bible Version
Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
Amplified Bible
"Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
English Standard Version
"Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord God , the God of hosts,
World English Bible
"Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Here ye, and witnesse ye in the hous of Jacob, seith the Lord God of oostis.
English Revised Version
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.
Berean Standard Bible
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord God All-Powerful told me to speak this message against Jacob's descendants:
American Standard Version
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;
Complete Jewish Bible
"As a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear; so the people of Isra'el in Shomron will be rescued, huddled under cushions in the corners of their beds. "Hear, and testify against the house of Ya‘akov," says Adonai Elohim Elohei-Tzva'ot.
Darby Translation
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.
King James Version (1611)
Heare yee and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes;
New Living Translation
"Now listen to this, and announce it throughout all Israel," says the Lord, the Lord God of Heaven's Armies.
New Life Bible
Hear and speak against the family of Jacob," says the Lord God, the God of All.
New Revised Standard
Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord God , the God of hosts:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare, and testifie in the house of Iaakob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes.
George Lamsa Translation
Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, says the LORD God, the God of hosts of Israel,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord the God of hosts:
Revised Standard Version
"Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hoastes:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear, O ye priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God Almighty.
Good News Translation
Listen now, and warn the descendants of Jacob," says the Sovereign Lord Almighty.
Christian Standard Bible®
Listen and testify against the house of Jacob—
Hebrew Names Version
"Listen, and testify against the house of Ya`akov," says the Lord GOD, the God Tzva'ot,.
King James Version
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God , the God of hosts,
Lexham English Bible
"Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," declares my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.
Literal Translation
Hear and testify in the house of Jacob, declares the Lord Jehovah, the God of Hosts.
Young's Literal Translation
Hear ye and testify to the house of Jacob, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, God of Hosts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare, and beare recorde in the house of Iacob (sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes)
THE MESSAGE
"Listen and bring witness against Jacob's family"— this is God's Word, God -of-the-Angel-Armies! "Note well! The day I make Israel pay for its sins, pay for the sin-altars of worship at Bethel, The horned altars will all be dehorned and scattered around. I'll tear down the winter palace, smash the summer palace—all your fancy buildings. The luxury homes will be demolished, all those pretentious houses." God 's Decree.
New King James Version
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,"Declares Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

Contextual Overview

9 Announce it over the palaces in Ashdod, and over the palaces in the land of Egypt, - and say ye - Gather yourselves together upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold ye - the great disorders in the midst thereof, and the oppressed within her. 10 Therefore do they not know how to do right, Declareth Yahweh, who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces. 11 Therefore - Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, An adversary! Yea round about the land, - and he who shall bring down, from thee, thy strength, And spoiled shall be thy palaces. 12 Thus, saith Yahweh, Just as a shepherd rescueth, out of the mouth of the lion, a couple of shankbones, or the tip of an ear, so, shall be rescued the sons of Israel, who are tarrying in Samaria, in the corner of the divan, and on the damask of the luxurious couch. 13 Hear ye and bear witness, throughout the house of Jacob, - Commandeth My Lord, Yahweh, God of hosts: 14 That, in the day I visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, then will I punish, concerning the altars of Bethel, So shall the horns of the altar, be broken off, and they shall fall to the ground; 15 And I will smite the winter house along with the summer house, - and the houses of ivory, shall be destroyed! and the great houses, shall disappear, Declareth Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and testify: Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 30:18, Deuteronomy 30:19, 2 Kings 17:13, 2 Kings 17:15, 2 Chronicles 24:19, Acts 2:40, Acts 18:5, Acts 18:6, Acts 20:21, Ephesians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 4:6

the Lord: Amos 5:27, Joshua 22:22, Isaiah 1:24

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:3 - lest I Isaiah 7:13 - will ye Amos 4:13 - The Lord Amos 5:16 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 3:4
And the serpent said unto the woman, - Ye shall not die,
Genesis 3:6
And, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes and the tree was pleasant to make one knowing, then took she of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and she gave to her husband also, along with her, and he did eat.
Genesis 3:9
And Yahweh God called unto the man, - and said to him, Where art thou?
Genesis 3:10
And he said, The sound of thee, heard I in the garden, and I was afraid, for, naked, was I, so I hid myself.
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, - The woman whom thou didst put with me, she, gave me of the tree, so I did eat.
Genesis 44:15
And Joseph said to them, What is this deed which ye have done? Know ye not that such a man as I, can even divine?
1 Samuel 13:11
Then said Samuel - What hast thou done? And Saul said - Because I saw that the people had been scattered from me, and, thou, hadst not come within the appointed days, and, the Philistines, had gathered themselves together to Michmash,
2 Samuel 3:24
Then Joab came in unto the king, and said - What hast thou done? Lo! Abner came in unto thee. Wherefore is it that thou didst let him go, so that he is clean departed?
John 18:35
Pilate answered - Am, I, a Jew? Thine own nation, and the High-priests, delivered thee up, unto me! What, hast thou done?
1 Timothy 2:14
And, Adam, was not deceived, whereas, the woman, having been wholly deceived, hath come to be, in transgression;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob,.... The prophets and priests, whose business it was to speak to the people from the Lord, and declare his will to them, and to admonish them of their sin and danger, are here called upon to hearken to what the Lord was about to say, and to testify and publish it to the people of Israel, the posterity of Jacob, though sadly degenerated:

saith the Lord God, the God of hosts; the eternal Jehovah, the Being of beings, the God of the whole earth, the God of the armies above and below; and, being so great, ought to be heard with the greatest attention and reverence in what follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear ye and testify ye in - (Rather unto or against ) the house of Israel; first “hear” yourselves, then “testify,” that is, solemnly “protest,” in the Name of God; and “bear witness unto” and “against” them, so that the solemn words may sink into them. It is of little avail to “testfy,” unless we first “hear;” nor can man “bear witness” to what he doth not know; nor will words make an “impression,” that is, leave a trace of themselves, be stamped in or on people’s souls, unless the soul which utters them have first hearkened unto them.

Saith the Lord God of hosts - “So thundereth, as it were, the authority of the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of the shepherd. Foretelling and protesting the destruction of the altar of Bethel, he sets his God against the god whom Israel had chosen as theirs and worshiped there, “the Lord God of hosts,” against “the similitude of a calf that eateth hay” Psalms 106:20. Not I, a shepherd, but so speaketh my God against your god.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 3:13. Hear ye — This is an address to the prophet.


 
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