Amos 4:4

"You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says the LORD."

Key Reflection

This verse describes a scenario where people flee through broken walls, moving in straight lines, ultimately seeking refuge in Harmon. The imagery suggests a chaotic and desperate exodus, symbolizing the judgment and destruction that Amos foretold would befall the northern kingdom of Israel if they did not repent.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Come to Beth-el and transgress -Having foretold their captivity, the prophet tries irony. But his irony is in bidding them go on to do, what they were doing earnestly, what they were set upon doing, and would not be withdrawn from. As Micaiah in irony, until adjured in the name of God, joined Ahab’s court-priests, bidding, him “go to Ramoth-Gilead”1 Kings 22:15, where he was to perish; or Elijah said to the priests of Baal, “Cry aloud, for he is a god”1 Kings 18:27; or our Lord, “Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers”Matthew 23:32; so Amos bids them do all they did, in their divided service of God, but tells them that to multiply all such service was to multiply transgression.

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