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Cross-References and Text Notes

Amos 1

Amos 2

Amos 3

d ver 14

1 3:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

2 3:12 Or Israelites be rescued, / those who sit in Samaria / on the edge of their beds / and in Damascus on their couches.

z S ver 2; S Lev 26:18

Amos 4

b S Am 3:9

1 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets

2 4:3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppression

3 4:4 Or days

c S Ex 9:3

Amos 5

i S 1Sa 7:16; S 8:2

1 5:5 Hebrew aven, a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see Hosea 4:15.

k ver 14; S Lev 18:5

i S ver 6

2 5:26 Or lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star-gods; Septuagint lifted up the shrine of Molek / and the star of your god Rephan, / their idols

Amos 6

d S Am 3:9

z S Am 5:3

1 6:10 Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead

2 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there

3 6:13 Lo Debar means nothing.

4 6:13 Karnaim means horns; horn here symbolizes strength.

Amos 7

Amos 8

Amos 9

p S Am 8:8

1 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

2 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

3 9:7 That is, people from the upper Nile region

4 9:7 That is, Crete

5 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me

l S Ru 2:3

s S Isa 32:18; S 49:8; S 61:4

6 9:14 Or will restore the fortunes of my people Israel