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Amos 3:10

The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 3:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

They know not how to do right. The Samaritans have lost all sense of justice, the foundation of social life (). LXX; οὐκ ἔγνις ἂ ἔσται ἐναντίον αὐτῆς, "She knew not what things shall be before her."

Store up violence; i.e. the fruits of violence and robbery, what they had wrung from the poor by oppression and rapine.

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