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Amos 2:2

Amos 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Kirioth; cities, and so taken as an appellative by the Septuagint translators, τῶν πόλεων αὐτῆς: but it is doubtless a proper name of one of the chief Moabite towns (, ).

Keil, after Burckhardt, identifies it with the decayed town of Kereyat, or Korriat; others, with Ar, or Kir, the old capital (). The plural termination of the word,like Athenae, Thebae, etc; may denote a double city—upper and lower, or old and new.

Moab shall die. The nation is personified. With tumult; caused by war (comp. , and the prophecy of Balaam, ). Septuagint, ἐν ἀδυναμίᾳ, "in weakness." With shouting. Omitted by the Vulgate (see on ).

Trumpet (; ). Trochon cites Virgil, 'AEneid,' 2:313, "Exoritur clamorque virum clangorque tubarum," "Rises the shout of men and trumpets' blare."

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