Amos 2:14

Rabbah] on the banks of the Upper Jabbok (2 Samuel 11:12). The shouting means the war-cry.

15. Some of the ancient translations, with which Jeremiah 49:3 (see RV) agrees, understand this v. as referring, not to the king, but to the Ammonite god Malcam, with his priests and his princes. This involves no alteration in the consonants of the principal word, which in either case is Malcam.

Amos 2:1. Jehovah will punish the wrongs which these petty nations do each other, as well as their outrages upon Israel.

1. Burning the king's bones into lime was a gross indignity (Joshua 7:25; 2 Kings 23:16; 2 Kings 23:18). Their thorough destruction prevented the man's being 'gathered to his fathers.' And there may have been a belief that the spirit suffered when the corpse was abused (Job 14:22; Isaiah 66:24). Jewish tradition looked on this cremation as an act of vengeance for the part taken by Edom in the campaign described 2 Kings 3. Kirioth] RV 'Kerioth.' Perhaps to be identified with Ar, the capital of Moab: when one of these is named the other is omitted. It is mentioned in the famous inscription of Mesha, who was king of Moab in Ahab's time, and seems to have been a sanctuary. His words are, 'before Chemosh in Keriyyoth.'