Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah." — Amos 6:14 (ASV)
From ... unto.— The entire limits of the kingdom of Israel after the victories of Jeroboam II. were, according to 2 Kings 14:25, identical with the region which is here threatened with invasion, i.e., extending from the mouth of the Orontes valley (Joshua 13:5) to the Wady el Ahsa, the southern boundary of Moab. (Compare Isaiah 15:7, where the Hebrew name appears under a slightly different form, implying “torrent of the poplars.”)