Amo 6:14 | JFB | STEP | 14. from the entering in of Hamath —the point of entrance for an invading army (as Assyria) into Israel from the north; specified here, as Hamath had been just before subjugated by Jeroboam II ( ). Do not glory in your recently acquired city, for it shall be the starting-point for the foe to afflict you. How sad the contrast to the feast of Solomon attended by a congregation from this same Hamath, the most northern boundary of Israel, to the Nile, the river of Egypt, the most southern boundary! unto the river of the wilderness —that is, to Kedron, which empties itself into the north bay of the Dead Sea below Jericho ( ), the southern boundary of the ten tribes ( , "from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain") [MAURER ]. To the river Nile, which skirts the Arabian wilderness and separates Egypt from Canaan [GROTIUS ]. If this verse includes Judah, as well as Israel (compare , "Zion" and "Samaria"), GROTIUS' view is correct; and it agrees with .

Amos 6:14

14. from the entering in of Hamath—the point of entrance for an invading army (as Assyria) into Israel from the north; specified here, as Hamath had been just before subjugated by Jeroboam II (Am 6:2). Do not glory in your recently acquired city, for it shall be the starting-point for the foe to afflict you. How sad the contrast to the feast of Solomon attended by a congregation from this same Hamath, the most northern boundary of Israel, to the Nile, the river of Egypt, the most southern boundary!

unto the river of the wilderness—that is, to Kedron, which empties itself into the north bay of the Dead Sea below Jericho (2Ch 28:15), the southern boundary of the ten tribes (2Ki 14:25, "from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain") [MAURER]. To the river Nile, which skirts the Arabian wilderness and separates Egypt from Canaan [GROTIUS]. If this verse includes Judah, as well as Israel (compare Am 6:1, "Zion" and "Samaria"), GROTIUS' view is correct; and it agrees with 1Ki 8:65.