Amos 6:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי הִנְנִי מֵקִים עֲלֵיכֶם בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל נְאֻם־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי הַצְּבָאוֹת גּוֹי וְלָחֲצוּ אֶתְכֶם מִלְּבוֹא חֲמָת עַד־נַחַל הָעֲרָבָה

Transliteration

For behold-me mēqîm against-you bêt yiśrāʾēl nəʾum- YHWH ʾĕlōhê the ṣəbāʾôt gôy wə- lāḥăṣû ʾetkem from ləbôʾ ḥămāt until- naḥal the ʿărābâ

Grammar Details

• *mēqîm*: hiphil participle, masculine singular - raising up
• *bêt*: construct noun - house of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *nəʾum-*: construct - declaration of
• *ʾĕlōhê*: masculine plural construct - God of
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: feminine plural with definite article - the hosts
• *gôy*: masculine singular - nation
• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *lāḥăṣû*: perfect, 3rd person plural - they will oppress
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
• *ləbôʾ*: infinitive construct with preposition *min-lə-* - from entrance of
• *ḥămāt*: proper noun - Hamath
• *naḥal*: masculine singular construct with preposition *ʿad-* - to stream of
• *ʿărābâ*: feminine singular with definite article - the Arabah

Word Meanings

• *mēqîm*: raising up/establishing/setting up
• *nəʾum*: declaration/oracle/utterance
• *gôy*: nation/people/gentiles
• *lāḥăṣû*: oppress/afflict/squeeze
• *ləbôʾ*: entrance/approach/coming to
• *naḥal*: stream/wadi/brook
• *ʿărābâ*: Arabah/desert plain/wilderness

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 8:65 : 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
• 2 Kgs 14:25 : 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel, which he spake by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
• Jer 5:15-17 : 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. 16 Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword.
• Ezek 47:15-17 : 15 And this shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the entrance of Zedad; 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. 17 And the border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
• Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
• Num 34:7-8 : 7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor; 8 from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
• 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
• 2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
• Isa 7:20 : 20 In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
• Isa 8:4-8 : 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria. 5 And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks; 8 and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
• Isa 10:5-6 : 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.