Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 7:17

17 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city , and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword , and thy land shall be divided by line : and thou shalt die in a polluted land , and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land .

Because thou hast so directly, and strenuously oppos'd the Lord,

which to a man of sense is a great affliction.

A common whore,

A notorious one that plays not the Adulteress in secret at home, but so that all take notice of it, and brand her for it;

Which in all likelyhood doth intimate their slaughter by Shallum when he slew Zechariah Ieroboam's Son, with whom no doubt but his friends fell, among which this Family was, or else by the sword, of Menahem, who slew Shallum.

Thy Estate, which no doubt was large, shall be shared among the Souldiers and Courtiers of Menahem.

Thy dishonour by a lewd Wife, thy childless solitariness, and thy Poverty shall come on thee e're thou die, its probable he fled to save his Life.

Among the Heathen, where thou mayest be sure my word was true.

Ten Tribes.

See ver 11. let. f. g.

Marginal references: See Jer. 28.12. and 29.21, 25.