Albert Barnes Commentary Amos 3:1

"Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying," — Amos 3:1 (ASV)

Amos, like Hosea, rebukes Israel directly and Judah indirectly. He had warned each nation separately. Now, before he concentrates himself on Israel, he sums up what he had previously said to Judah and in the Person of God: "You have been alike in My gifts to you, alike in your waste of them and your sins; alike you shall be in your punishment." What was said to Israel was also said to Judah; what was directed first to the former people belongs to us, the later. What Jesus said to the Apostles, He also said to the Church and to single souls, What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch (Mark 13:37).

Hear ye this word — With that solemn threefold call, so frequent in the Old Testament, he summons them three times (Amos 3:1; Amos 4:1; Amos 5:1), as in the Name of the Holy Trinity, to hear God’s words: "The prophet, at the outset of the chapter, rouses the hearers to anxious consideration. For the words of the Most High God are to be heard, not with a superficial, unawed, wandering mind, but with reverence, fear, and love."

That the Lord hath spoken against — (and upon) you, (coming down from heaven, Hebrews 12:25, both "upon" and "against" them) the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt. To Abraham God had said, in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed (Genesis 12:3). So now, in withdrawing that blessing from them, He takes it away from them, family by family (Zechariah 12:12). He includes them, one and all, and Judah also, since all had been brought out of Egypt.