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Amos 3:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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Quick Meaning
This verse states that Samaria does not know how to act rightly and stores violence and robbery in palaces.
Read It With
- Amos 3:9-12
Read Amos 3:10 with 3:9-12. This verse states that Samaria does not know how to act rightly and stores violence and robbery in palaces. The complete unit establishes this movement: Foreign elites are summoned to witness disorder and oppression stored inside Samaria; an adversary will strip its strength, and only a mutilated remnant will be rescued.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The nations once indicted now become witnesses that Israel's internal oppression is indefensible even by regional standards. Within that movement, this verse states that Samaria does not know how to act rightly and stores violence and robbery in palaces.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“store up violence and robbery in their palaces”
In plain language: The palaces hold wealth characterized by the harm through which it was obtained.
states that Samaria does not know how to act rightly and stores violence and robbery in palaces. Wealth can preserve and conceal the proceeds of violence rather than security.
Why it matters: The wording identifies this verse's distinct contribution to the complete unit.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Wealth can preserve and conceal the proceeds of violence rather than security.
How It Can Shape Life
- Audit whether institutional reserves and luxury were accumulated through coercion.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Amos 3:9-12 — Foreign Witnesses See Samaria's Stored ViolenceSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Amos 3:9-12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Amos
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Amos.xml, 3:9-12
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Amos with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Amos PDF, printed pp. 1711, translation and notes on 3:9-12
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