Amos 4:1
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- ye kine
- By the "kine of Bashan," some understand the proud, luxurious matrons of Israel; but it is probable the prophet speaks catachrestically, and means the wealthy, effeminate, and profligate rulers and nobles of Samaria.
- Deuteronomy 32:14, 15; Psalm 22:12; Jeremiah 50:11, 27; Ezekiel 39:18
- the mountains
- Amos 6:1; 1 Kings 16:24
- which oppress
- Amos 2:6, 7; Amos 3:9, 10; Amos 5:11; Amos 8:4–6; Exodus 22:21–25; Deuteronomy 15:9–11; Psalm 12:5; Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 22:22, 23; Proverbs 23:10, 11; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Isaiah 1:17–24; Isaiah 5:8; Isaiah 58:6; Jeremiah 5:26–29; Jeremiah 6:6; Jeremiah 7:6; Ezekiel 22:7, 12, 27, 29; Micah 2:1–3; Micah 3:1–3; Zechariah 7:10, 11; Malachi 3:5; James 5:1–6
- crush
- Deuteronomy 28:33; Job 20:19; Jeremiah 51:34
- Bring
- Amos 2:8; Joel 3:3