Amos 7:17
Context| NETBible | “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets 1 and your sons and daughters will die violently. 2 Your land will be given to others 3 and you will die in a foreign 4 land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile 5 away from its land.’” |
| XREF | Le 26:33-39; 2Ki 17:6; Ps 78:55; Isa 13:16; Jer 20:6; Jer 28:12,16; Jer 29:21,25,31,32; Jer 36:27-32; La 5:11; Eze 4:13; Ho 4:13,14; Ho 9:3; Am 7:11; Zec 14:2 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.” 2 tn Heb “will fall by the sword.” 3 tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.” 4 tn Heb “[an] unclean”; or “[an] impure.” This fate would be especially humiliating for a priest, who was to distinguish between the ritually clean and unclean (see Lev 10:10). 5 tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5. |
