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Amos 2:2

Amos 2:2
But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

But I will send a fire upon Moab,.... Either on the whole country, or on some particular city so called, as in all the other prophecies; and there was a city called Moab, now Areopolis; see Gill on…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

It shall devour the palaces of Kerioth - Literally, “the cities,” that is, a collection of cities. It may have received a plural form upon some enlargement, as Jerusalem received a dual form, as a…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The palaces of Kirioth - This was one of the principal cities of the Moabites.

Moab shall die with tumult - All these expressions seem to refer to this city's being taken by storm, which was followed…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Amos 2:1-8

Here is, I. The judgment of Moab, another of the nations that bordered upon Israel. They are reckoned with and shall be punished for three transgressions and for four, as those before. Now, 1. Moab's…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the palaces of Kerioth more exactly Ḳeriyyoth: named here and Jer 48:41 (cf. Jer 48:48) as a representative city of Moab, and hence evidently a considerable place, if not the capital of Moab. Mesha,…

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