You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.
- KJV And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
- NKJV You will go out through broken walls, Each one straight ahead of her, And you will be cast into Harmon,” Says the Lord.
- NASB “You will go out through holes in the walls, One in front of the other, And you will be hurled to Harmon,” declares the Lord.
- NLT You will be led out through the ruins of the wall; you will be thrown from your fortresses,” says the Lord.
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Quick answer
They will be led out through breaches in the broken walls and cast away into exile. The proud women of Samaria will be driven from their ruined city.
Overview
With the city walls breached by the enemy, the captives will be marched straight out and removed to a distant place (the obscure name Harmon). The scene depicts total defeat and deportation. The luxury of verse 1 ends in the shame of verse 3. This was fulfilled in the Assyrian conquest, vindicating God's solemn word.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ezek 12:5As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
- Ezek 12:12And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.
- Isa 31:7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- Matt 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- 2 Kgs 7:7–8Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.
- Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
- 2 Kgs 25:4Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- 2 Kgs 7:15And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
- Zeph 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
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Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.
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