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Amos 5:27
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So I will send you as captives, far beyond Damascus." This is what the Lord says. His name is God All-Powerful.
"Therefore I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of armies.
So I will send you away as captives beyond Damascus," says the Lord , whose name is the God All-Powerful.
and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus," says the Lord . He is called the God who commands armies!
Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts.
"Therefore, I will send you to go into exile far beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the Lord , whose name is the God of hosts.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
And Y schal make you for to passe ouer Damask, seide the Lord; God of oostis is the name of him.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
I will force you to march as captives beyond Damascus. I, the Lord God All-Powerful, have spoken!
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
as I exile you beyond Dammesek," says Adonai Elohei -Tzva'ot — that is his name.
and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith He, whose name is the LORD God of hosts.
Therefore wil I cause you to go into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose Name is the God of hostes.
So I will send you into exile, to a land east of Damascus," says the Lord , whose name is the God of Heaven's Armies.
So I will make you go as prisoners to the other side of Damascus," says the Lord, Whose name is the God of All.
therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord , whose name is the God of hosts.
Therefore wil I cause you to goe into captiuitie beyond Damascus, saith the Lorde, whose Name is the God of hostes.
Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD whose name is the God of hosts.
And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.
therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
Therfore will I cause you to go into captiuitie beyonde Damascus, sayth the Lorde, whose name is the God of hoastes.
And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.
when I take you into exile in a land beyond Damascus," says the Lord , whose name is Almighty God.
So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Dammesek," says the LORD, whose name is the God Tzva'ot,.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord , whose name is The God of hosts.
And I will deport you beyond Damascus," says Yahweh—the God of hosts is his name.
And I will exile you beyond Damascus, says Jehovah, the God of Hosts is His name.
And I removed you beyond Damascus, Said Jehovah, God of Hosts [is] His name.
Therfore wil I cause you be caried awaye beyonde Damascus, sayeth the LORDE, whose name is the God off hoostes.
Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus," Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
"Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
beyond: 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 17:6, Acts 7:43
whose: Amos 4:13
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:32 - sons 1 Kings 14:15 - shall scatter 2 Kings 17:23 - as he had said 2 Kings 25:21 - So Judah Isaiah 10:13 - I have removed Jeremiah 15:14 - pass Jeremiah 38:17 - the God of hosts Hosea 9:15 - I will drive Hosea 11:5 - but Amos 3:13 - the Lord Amos 5:16 - the Lord Amos 6:7 - shall they
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,.... The chief city of Syria; and which, as Aben Ezra says, lay to the east of the land of Israel, and was a very strong and fortified place: and Syria being in alliance with Israel, the Israelites might think of fleeing thither for refuge, in the time of their distress; but they are here told that they should be taken captive, and be carried to places far more remote than that: Stephen says, "beyond Babylon"; as they were, for they were carried into Media, to Halah and Habor by the river of Gozan, to the cities of the Medes; their way to which lay through Syria and Babylon;
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saith the Lord, whose name [is] the God of hosts; and therefore is able to do what he threatens; and it might be depended upon it would be certainly done, as it is clear, beyond all contradiction, it has been done; see 2 Kings 17:6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Therefore - (And) this being so, such having been their way from the beginning until now, will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus Syria was the most powerful enemy by whom God had heretofore chastened them 2 Kings 13:7. From Syria He had recently, for the time, delivered them, and had given Damascus into their hands 2 Kings 14:25, 2 Kings 14:28. That day of grace had been wasted, and they were still rebellious. Now God would bring against them a mightier enemy. Damascus, the scene of their triumph, should be their pathway to captivity. God would âcauseâ them âto go into captivity,â not to âDamascus,â from where they might have easily returned, but âbeyondâ it, as He did, âinto the cities of the Medes.â But Israel had, up to the time of Amos and beyond it, no enemy, no war, âbeyond Damascus.â Jehu had probably paid tribute to Shalmanubar king of Assyria, to strengthen himself . The Assyrian monarch had warred against Israelâs enemies, and seemingly received some check from them (see the note above at Amos 1:3).
Against Israel he had shown no hostility. But for the conspiracy of one yet to be born in private life, one of the captains of Israel who by murder, became its sovereign, it might have continued on in its own land. The Assyrian monarchs needed tribute, not slaves; nor did they employ Israel as slaves. Exile was but a wholesale imprisonment of the nation in a large but safe prison-house. Had they been still, they were more profitable to Assyria, as tributaries in their own land. There was no temptation to remove them, when Amos prophesied. The temptation came with political intrigues which had not then commenced. The then Assyrian monarch, Shamasiva, defeated their enemies the Syrians, united with and aiding the Babylonians ; âtheyâ had then had no share in the opposition to Assyria, but lay safe in their mountain-fastness.
It has been said , âAlthough the kingdom of Israel had, through Jeroboam, recovercd its old borders, yet careless insolence, luxury, unrighteousness, âmustâ bring the destruction of the kingdom which the prophet foretells. The prophet does but dimly forebode the superior power of Assyria.â Solomon had declared the truth, âRighteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any peopleâ Proverbs 14:34. But there are many sorts of decay. Decay does not involve the transportation of a people. Nay, decay would not bring it, but the contrary. A mere luxurious people rots on its own soil, and would be left to rot there. It was the little remnant of energy, political cabaling, warlike spirit, in Israel, which brought its ruin from man. Idolatry, âinsolence, luxury, unrighteousness,â bring down the displeasure of God, not of man. Yet Amos foretold, that God would bring the destruction through man.
They were, too, no worse than their neighbors, nor so bad; not so bad as the Assyrians themselves, except that, God having revealed Himself to them, they had more light. The sin then, the punishment the mode of punishment, belong to the divine revelation. Such sins and worse have existed in Christian nations. They were in part sins directly against God. God reserves to Himself, how and when He will punish. He has annexed no such visible laws of punishment to a nationâs sins that man could, of his own wisdom or observation of Godâs ways, foresee it. They through whom Itc willed to inflict it, and whom Amos pointed out, were not provoked by âthoseâ sins. There was no connection between Israelâs present sins, and Assyriaâs future vengeance. No Eastern despot cares for the oppressions of his subjects, so that his own tribute is collected. See the whole range of Muslim rule now. As far too as we know, neither Assyria nor any other power had hitherto punished rebellious nations by transporting them ; and certainly Israel had not yet rebelled, or meditated rebellion. He only who controls the rebellious wills of people, and through their self-will works out His own all-wise Will and manâs punishment, could know the future of Israel and Assyria, and how through the pride of Assyria He would bring down the pride of Samaria.
It has been well said by a thoughtful observer of the worldâs history, âWhosoever attempts to prophesy, not being inspired, is a fool.â We English know our own sins, many and grievous; we know of a vast reign of violence, murder, blasphemy, theft, uncleanness, covetousness, dishonest dealing, unrighteousness, and of the breach of every commandment of God: we know well now of an instrument in Godâs Hands, not far off; like the Assyrian, but within two hours of our coast; armaments have been collected; a harbor is being formed; our own coast openly examined; iron-sheeted vessels prepared; night-signals provided; some of our own alienated population organized; with a view to our invasion. We recognize the likelihood of the invasion, fortify our coast, arm, not as a profession, but for security. Our preparations testify, how widespread is our expectation. No one scarcely doubts that it will be.
Yet who dare predict the issue? Will God permit that scourge to come? Will he prevail? What would be the extent of our sufferings or loss? How would our commerce or our Empire be impaired? Would it be dismembered? Since no man can affirm anything as to this which is close at hand, since none of us would dare to affirm in Godâs Name, in regard to any one stage of all this future, that this or that would or would not happen, then let people have at least the modesty of the magicians of Egypt, and seeing in Godâs prophets those absolute predictions of a future, such as their own wisdom, under circumstances far more favorable, could not dare to make, own; âThis is the finger of Godâ Exodus 8:19. Not we alone. We see all Europe shaken; we see powers of all sorts, heaving to and fro; we see the Turkish power ready to dissolve, stayed up, like a dead man, only by un-Christian jealousies of Christians. Some things we may partially guess at.
But with all our means of knowing what passes everywhere, with all our knowledge of the internal impulses of nations, hearing, as we do, almost every pulse which beats in the great European system, knowing the diseases which, here and there, threaten convulsion or dissolution, no one dare stake his human wisdom on any absolute prediction, like these of the shepherd of Tekoa as to Damascus (see the note above at Amos 1:5. pp. 160, 161) and Israel. To say the like in Godâs Name, unless inspired, we should know to be blasphemy. God Himself set the alternative before men. âLet all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled; who among them that can declare this, and show former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say,â It is âtruthâ Isaiah 43:9.
Stephen, in quoting this prophecy, substitutes, Babylon for Damascus, as indeed âthe cities of the Medesâ were further than Babylon. Perhaps he set the name, in order to remind them, that as God had brought Abraham âout of the land of the Chaldeansâ Acts 7:4, leaving the idols which his âfathersâ had âservedâ Joshua 24:14, to serve God only, so they, serving idols, were carried back, from where Abraham had come, forfeiting, with the faith of Abraham, the promises made to Abraham; aliens and outcasts.
Saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts - The Lord of the heavenly hosts for whose worship they forsook God; the Lord of the hosts on earth, whose ministry He employs to punish those who rebel against Him , âFor He hath many hosts to execute His judgments, the hosts of the Assyrians, the Medes and Persians, the Greeks and Romans.â All creatures in heaven and in earth are, as He says of the holy Angels, âministers of His, that do His pleasureâ Psalms 103:21.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Amos 5:27. Will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus — That is, into Assyria, the way to which, from Judea, was by Damascus.
But St. Stephen says, Acts 7:43, beyond Babylon; because the Holy Spirit that was in him chose to extend the meaning of the original text to that great and final captivity of the Jews in general, when Zedekiah, their last king, and the people of Judea, were carried into Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Media; see 2 Kings 17:7; 2 Kings 17:24. This captivity happened after the time of Amos.
