Amos 4 · Verse 10

Amos 4:10

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
Amos 4:10, King James Version

Amos 4:10 in other translations

BSB“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
WEB“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.
ASVI have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
YLTI have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up--even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
DARBYI have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, taking away captive your horses; and I made the stench of your camps to come up, even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
BBEI have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
WebsterI have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the ill savor of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.

What does Amos 4:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 4:6-11

6-11. Jehovah details His several chastisements inflicted with a view to reclaiming them: but adds to each the same sad result, "yet have ye not returned unto Me" (Is 9:13; Jr 5:3; Ho 7:10); the monotonous repetition of the same burden marking their pitiable obstinacy. cleanness of teeth--explained by the parallel, "want of bread." The famine alluded to is that mentioned in 2Ki 8:1 [Grotius]. Where there is no food…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 I have sent - the pestilence - After the blasting and the mildew, the pestilence came; and it acted among them as one of the plagues of Egypt. Besides this, he had suffered their enemies to attack and prevail against them; alluding to the time in which the Syrians besieged Samaria, and reduced it to the most extreme necessity, when the head of an ass was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five; and mothers ate the flesh of their children that had died through hunger, 2Kgs 6:25. And the people were miraculously relieved by the total slaughter of the Syrians by the unseen hand of God, 2Kgs 7:1, etc. And yet, after all those signal judgments, and singular mercies, "they did not return unto the Lord!"

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 4:6-13

See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their ear to Him in whom they might find all they can want. Preaching the gospel is as rain, and every thing withers where this rain is wanting. It were well if people were as wise for their souls as they are for their bodies; and…

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Amos 4:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שִׁלַּ֨חְתִּיshi.Lach.tiI sentH7971
בָכֶ֥םva.Khemamong you
דֶּ֙בֶר֙de.verpestilenceH1698
בְּדֶ֣רֶךְbe.De.rekhin [the] manner ofH1870
מִצְרַ֔יִםmitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714
הָרַ֤גְתִּיha.Rag.tiI killedH2026
בַחֶ֙רֶב֙va.Che.revby the swordH2719
בַּח֣וּרֵיכֶ֔םba.Chu.rei.Khemyoung men yourH970
עִ֖ם'imwithH5973
שְׁבִ֣יshe.Vi[the] capture ofH7628
סֽוּסֵיכֶ֑םsu.sei.Khemhorses yourH5483
וָאַעֲלֶ֞הva.'a.'a.Lehand I caused to go upH5927
בְּאֹ֤שׁbe.'Osh[the] stench ofH889
מַחֲנֵיכֶם֙ma.cha.nei.Khemcamp yourH4264
וּֽבְאַפְּכֶ֔םu.ve.'a.pe.Khem<and> in nose yourH639
וְלֹֽא\־ve.lo'-and notH3808
שַׁבְתֶּ֥םshav.Temyou returnedH7725
עָדַ֖י'a.Daito meH5704
נְאֻם\־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Amos 4:10

  • Deuteronomy 28:60

    Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

  • Leviticus 26:25

    And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

  • Joel 2:20

    But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

  • 2 Kings 13:7

    Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

  • Exodus 9:3-6

    Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel. And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land. And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

  • Deuteronomy 28:26-27

    And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

  • Psalms 78:49-50

    He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

  • Deuteronomy 7:15

    And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

  • 2 Kings 13:3

    And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben–hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

  • Amos 4:6

    And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 11:22

    Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

  • Deuteronomy 28:22

    The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
pestilence.
Ex 9:3-6; 12:29,30; 15:26; Le 26:16,25; De 7:15; 28:22,27,60
Ps 78:49,50
after the manner. or, in the way. your young.
Le 26:25; 2Ki 8:12; 10:32; Jer 6:11; 11:22; 18:21; 48:15
and have taken away your horses. Heb. with the captivity ofyour horses.
2Ki 13:3,7
the stink.
8:3; De 28:26; Jer 8:1,2; 9:22; 15:3; 16:4; Joe 2:20
yet.
6; Ex 8:19; 9:12,17,34,35; 10:3,27; 14:4

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Context

  • Amos 4:9

    I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

  • Amos 4:10

    I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

  • Amos 4:11

    I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

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Amos 4:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Envié entre vosotros mortandad al modo que en Egipto: maté á cuchillo vuestros mancebos, con cautiverio de vuestros caballos; é hice subir el hedor de vuestros reales hasta vuestras narices: empero no os tornasteis á mí, dice Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		J’ai envoyé parmi vous une peste à la façon de l’Égypte; j’ai tué vos jeunes gens par l’épée, emmenant aussi vos chevaux; et j’ai fait monter la puanteur de vos camps, et cela dans vos narines; et vous n’êtes pas revenus à moi, dit l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich habe die Pest unter euch gesandt in der Weise Ägyptens; ich habe eure Jünglinge mit dem Schwerte getötet, indem zugleich eure Rosse gefangen weggeführt wurden, und ich ließ den Gestank eurer Heerlager aufsteigen, und zwar in eure Nase. Dennoch seid ihr nicht bis zu mir umgekehrt, spricht Jehova.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Misi in vos mortem in via Ægypti; percussi in gladio juvenes vestros, usque ad captivitatem equorum vestrorum, et ascendere feci putredinem castrorum vestrorum in nares vestras: et non redistis ad me, dicit Dominus.