Amos Chapter 3 verse 2 Holy Bible
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
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You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.
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You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.
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You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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"You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."
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Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Have I known; i.e. loved, acknowledged, chosen. So in Hosea 13:5 God says. "I knew thee in the wilderness;" and St. Paul (2 Timothy 2:19), "The Lord knoweth them that are his" (comp. Nahum 1:7). The peculiar relation in which God allowed Israel to stand to him is much dwelt upon (see Deuteronomy 4:8, 20; Deuteronomy 14:2; 2 Samuel 7:23; 1 Chronicles 17:21). Therefore I will punish you; literally, visit upon you. They must not presume upon their privileges; the retention of God's favour depended upon obedience to his Word (Exodus 19:5): the nearer they were brought to God, the greater their guilt if they fell from him. Unlike the nations denounced in the former chapters, Israel had sinned against light and knowledge and love, therefore the sentence on her must be heavier (comp. Ezekiel 9:6; Luke 12:47; 1 Peter 4:17).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Known.--The knowledge of God is love. There was special knowledge and intimacy between God and Israel. Upon such knowledge followed advantages and privileges innumerable.Therefore I will . . .--This may mean, in proportion to your privileges will be your doom--but more probably that this intimacy of knowledge is the ground of gracious chastisement. For nation or man to be allowed to go on in sin without rebuke is the greatest curse that can befall it or him.
