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Amós 2:3
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También extirparé al juez de en medio de ella, y mataré a todos sus príncipes con él —dice el Señor .
Y quitaré el juez de en medio de él, y mataré con él a todos sus príncipes, dice Jehová.
Y quitaré el juez de en medio de él, y mataré con él a todos sus príncipes, dijo el SEÑOR.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Numbers 24:17, Jeremiah 48:7, Jeremiah 48:25
Reciprocal: Isaiah 3:2 - mighty Micah 5:1 - judge
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof,.... Either from the midst of Moab, the country in general; or from Kerioth in particular, so Kimchi; meaning their principal governor, their king, as Aben Ezra; for kings sometimes have acted as judges, took the bench, and sat and administered justice to their subjects:
and I will stay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord; the king, and the princes of the blood, and his nobles; so that there should be none to succeed him, or to protect and defend the people; the destruction should be an entire one, and inevitable, for the mouth of the Lord had spoken it. This was fulfilled at the same time as the prophecy against the children of Ammon by Nebuchadnezzar, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem o, which is next threatened.
o Joseph. Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7. Vid. Judith i. 12.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And I will cut off the judge - The title “judge†(shophet) is nowhere used absolutely of a king. Holy Scripture speaks in several places of “all the judges of the earth†Job 9:24; Psalms 2:10; Psalms 148:11; Proverbs 8:16; Isaiah 40:23. Hosea Hosea 13:10, under “judges,†includes “kings and princes,†as judging the people. The word “judge†is always used as one invested with the highest, but not regal authority, as of all the judges from the death of Joshua to Samuel. In like way it (Sufetes) was the title of the chief magistrates of Carthage , with much the same authority as the Roman Consuls . The Phoenician histories, although they would not own that Nebuchadnezzar conquered Tyre, still own that, after his 13 years’ siege , Baal reigned 10 years, and after him judges were set up, one for two months, a second for ten, a third, a high priest, for three, two more for six, and between these one reigned for a year. After his death, they sent for Merbaal from Babylon, who reigned for four years, and on his death, they sent for Hiram his brother who reigned for twenty. The judges then exercised the supreme authority, the king’s sons having been carried away captive. Probably, then, when Jeroboam II recovered the old territory of Israel, Moab lost its kings. It agrees with this, that Amos says, “the princes thereof,†literally, “her princes,†the princes of Moab, not as of Ammon, “his princes,†that is, the princes of the king.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Amos 2:3. I will cut off the judge — It shall be so destroyed, that it shall never more have any form of government. The judge here, ×©×•×¤×˜×™× shophet, may signify the chief magistrate. The chief magistrates of the Carthaginians were called suffetes; probably taken from the Hebrew JUDGES, shophetim.
