Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Amos 4:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
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Quick Meaning
This verse records a divine oath that the women will be taken away with hooks or related capture implements.
Read It With
- Amos 4:1-3
Read Amos 4:2 with 4:1-3. This verse records a divine oath that the women will be taken away with hooks or related capture implements. The complete unit establishes this movement: Privileged women in Samaria are indicted for participating in a household economy that crushes poor people and commands luxury; invasion will remove them through broken defenses.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The oracle identifies beneficiaries and participants within elite households rather than treating oppression as an abstract system. Within that movement, this verse records a divine oath that the women will be taken away with hooks or related capture implements.
What Remains True
Privilege cannot guarantee safety when the system sustaining it collapses.
How It Can Shape Life
- Protect women and other captives from humiliation and abuse even amid accountability.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Amos 4:1-3 — Samaria's Privileged Women Hear the Poor's CrySources 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 4:1-3, 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, 4:1-3
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. 1712-1713, translation and notes on 4:1-3
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