Amos 5:15
Context| NETBible | Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote 1 justice at the city gate! 2 Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on 3 those who are left from 4 Joseph. 5 |
| XREF | Ex 32:30; 2Sa 16:12; 1Ki 20:31; 2Ki 13:7; 2Ki 14:26,27; 2Ki 15:29; 2Ki 19:4; 2Ch 19:6-11; Ps 34:14; Ps 36:4; Ps 37:27; Ps 82:2-4; Ps 97:10; Ps 119:104; Ps 139:21,22; Jer 7:5-7; Jer 31:7; Joe 2:14; Am 5:6; Am 5:10,24; Am 6:12; Jon 3:9; Mic 2:12; Mic 5:3,7,8; Ro 7:15,16,22; Ro 8:7; Ro 12:9; 1Th 5:21,22; 3Jo 1:11 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “set up, establish.” In the ancient Near East it was the responsibility especially of the king to establish justice. Here the prophet extends that demand to local leaders and to the nation as a whole (cf. 5:24). 2 sn Legal disputes were resolved in the city gate (see the note in v. 12). This repetition of this phrase serves to highlight a deliberate contrast to the injustices cited in vv. 11-13. 3 tn Or “will show favor to.” 4 tn Or “the remnant of” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “what’s left of your people.” 5 sn Joseph (= Ephraim and Manasseh), as the most prominent of the Israelite tribes, represents the entire northern kingdom. |
