Amos Analysis 2:3

Walk through Amos, verse by verse, with the great Bible Commentaries of Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714) & Adam Clarke (1760 - 1832)

2:3

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD. KJV

{And I shall lose a judge of the midst thereof, and I shall slay with it all the princes thereof, saith the Lord.} Wycliffe's Bible


I will cut off the judge - It shall be so destroyed, that it shall never more have any form of government. The judge here, שופט shophet, may signify the chief magistrate. The chief magistrates of the Carthaginians were called suffetes; probably taken from the Hebrew Judges, שופטים shophetim .
It is a judgment upon their judge, ....he shall know there is a judge that is higher than he. The king, the chief judge, and all the inferior judges and princes, shall be cut off together. If the people sometimes suffer for the sin of their princes, yet the princes themselves shall not escape, Jeremiah 48:47. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.