Amos 2:3
Good News Translation
I will kill the ruler of Moab and all the leaders of the land."

New Revised Standard Version
I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its officials with him, says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
with its king and leaders. I, the LORD, have spoken!

New American Bible
I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and all the princes I will slay with him, says the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Numbers 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth

Jeremiah 48:7,25 For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together. . . .

Context
Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel
2And I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet: 3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.4Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.…
Cross References
Job 12:21
He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.

Psalm 2:10
And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

Psalm 141:6
Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:

Isaiah 40:23
He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Amos 5:7
You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,

Amos 5:12
Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

Amos 6:12
For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

Amos 2:2
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