Amos 5 · Verse 27

Amos 5:27

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.
Amos 5:27, King James Version

Amos 5:27 in other translations

BSBTherefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
WEBTherefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Armies.
ASVTherefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
YLTAnd I removed you beyond Damascus, Said Jehovah, God of Hosts is His name.
DARBYand I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
BBEAnd I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
WebsterTherefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

What does Amos 5:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. beyond Damascus--In Ac 7:43 it is "beyond Babylon," which includes beyond Damascus. In Amos' time, Damascus was the object of Israel's fear because of the Syrian wars. Babylon was not yet named as the place of their captivity. Stephen supplies this name. Their place of exile was in fact, as he states, "beyond Babylon," in Halah and Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes (2Ki 17:6; compare here Am 1:5; 4:3; 6:14). The road to Assyria lay through "Damascus." It is therefore specified, that not merely shall they be carried captives to Damascus, as they had been by Syrian kings (2Ki 10:32, 33; 13:7), but, beyond that, to a region whence a return was not so possible as from Damascus. They were led captive by Satan into idolatry, therefore God caused them to go captive among idolaters. Compare 2Ki 15:29; 16:9; Is 8:4, whence it appears Tiglath-pileser attacked Israel and Damascus at the same time at Ahaz' request (Am 3:11).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 Will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus - That is, into Assyria, the way to which, from Judea, was by Damascus. But St. Stephen says, Act 7:43, beyond Babylon; because the Holy Spirit that was in him chose to extend the meaning of the original text to that great and final captivity of the Jews in general, when Zedekiah, their last king, and the people of Judea, were carried into Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Media; see 2Kgs 17:7, 2Kgs 17:24. This captivity happened after the time of Amos.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 5:18-27

Woe unto those that desire the day of the Lord's judgments, that wish for times of war and confusion; as some who long for changes, hoping to rise upon the ruins of their country! but this should be so great a desolation, that nobody could gain by it. The day of the Lord will be a dark, dismal, gloomy day to all impenitent sinners. When God makes a day dark, all the world cannot make it light. Those who are not…

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Amos 5:27 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.

וְהִגְלֵיתִ֥יve.hig.lei.Tiand I will send into exileH1540
אֶתְכֶ֖ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853
מֵהָ֣לְאָהme.Hal.'ahfrom beyondH1973
לְדַמָּ֑שֶׂקle.da.Ma.sek<to> DamascusH1834
אָמַ֛ר'a.Marhe saysH559
יְהוָ֥הYah.weh[is] YahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵֽי\־'e.lo.hei-God ofH430
צְבָא֖וֹתtze.va.'othostsH6635
שְׁמֽוֹ\׃\ \פshe.Moname hisH8034

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

Cross references for Amos 5:27

  • 2 Kings 17:6

    In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

  • Acts 7:43

    Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

  • Amos 4:13

    For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.

  • 2 Kings 15:29

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
beyond.
2Ki 15:29; 17:6; Ac 7:43
whose.
4:13

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Context

  • Amos 5:26

    But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

  • Amos 5:27

    Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

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Amos 5:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Hareos pues trasportar más allá de Damasco, ha dicho Jehová, cuyo nombre es Dios de los ejércitos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et je vous transporterai au-delà de Damas, dit l’ Éternel; son nom est le Dieu des armées.
German
Elberfelder 1871		So werde ich euch jenseit Damaskus wegführen, spricht Jehova, Gott der Heerscharen ist sein Name.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus: Deus exercituum nomen ejus.