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Amos 4:10

The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 4:10

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

The fourth visitation is pestilence and the sword (Le 26:25; ). After the manner of Egypt. In the manner in which Egypt is stricken (comp. , ; ).

There is here no reference to the plague of , etc; or . The allusion is to the plague which was reckoned to be epidemic in Egypt, and to other loathsome diseases for which that country was notorious (see ; , ) Sir G.

Wilkinson notes that the plague used to occur about every ten years. Your young men have I slain with the sword. Pestilence and wax are allied scourges in Le . A reference may here be made to the wars with the Syrians, wherein the Israelites suffered heavy losses (; ; , , ).

And have taken away your horses; rather, together with your captive horses, still under the regimen of "I have slain." The destruction of men and horses is mentioned in . The stink of your camps.

These unburied caresses caused pestilence in the district. Septuagint, καὶ ἀνήγαγον ἐν πυρὶ τὰς παρεμβολὰς ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ ὑμῶν, or, according to the Alexandrian manuscript, παρεμβολὰς ὑμῶν ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, "In my wrath against you I set fire to your camps."

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