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Amos 1:15

King James Version (KJV)

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Amos 1:15

Verse 15 of 15

Scripture focus

And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.

Amos 1:15 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Amos 1:15

Theological / Devotional

Their king. Heb. malkam, which may properly either be translated as their “king” or taken as a proper name, for Milcom (see on 2 Sam. 12:30; 1 Kings 11:5), better known as Molech, who was the chief deity of the Ammonites (see on 1 Kings 11:7; Jer. 49:1; Zeph. 1:5). It was quite in harmony with the spirit of the time that the local deity or deities should be counted as sharing the fortunes of war with their worshipers (see Isa. 46:1, 2). It may well be that Amos intended that both the king and the god of the Ammonites would be taken into captivity as an evidence of the complete defeat of that nation.

Into captivity. In the case of Israel, captivity was designed to accomplish a reformation. For the heathen nations here arraigned by God, captivity would mark the close of probation.

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