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Amos 6:14
New English Translation
Amos 6:14
New English Translation
14 “Look! I am about to bring[a] a nation against you, family[b] of Israel,”
the Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking.
“They will oppress[c] you all the way from Lebo Hamath[d] to the stream of the rift valley.”[e]
Footnotes
- Amos 6:14 tn Or “raise up” (KJV, NASB); cf. NIV “stir up.”
- Amos 6:14 tn Heb “house.”
- Amos 6:14 sn Once again there is irony in the divine judgment. The oppressive nation itself will suffer oppression. The verb “oppress” (לָחַץ, lakhats) in this verse is not the same as that used in 4:1 (עָשַׁק, ʿashaq).
- Amos 6:14 tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.” The Hebrew term לְבוֹא (levoʾ) can either be translated or considered a part of the place name. This may be a site some 44 miles north of Damascus (see T.R. Hobbs, 2 Kings [WBC], 182).
- Amos 6:14 sn Lebo Hamath refers to the northern border of Israel, the stream of the rift valley to its southern border. See Num 34:8, 12; 1 Kgs 8:65; 2 Kgs 14:25. The southern border is named in various ways, as the Dead Sea, the stream of the rift valley (a stream which flows into the Dead Sea, possibly Zered at the south end), and the Brook of Egypt (the southwestern boundary). Through this invader the Lord would reverse the victories and territorial expansion Israel experienced during the reign of Jeroboam II.
Amos 6:14
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Amos 6:14
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