Amos 3:2
Konteks3:2 “I have chosen 1 you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
Amos 9:2
Konteks9:2 Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, 2
my hand would pull them up from there.
Even if they could climb up to heaven,
I would drag them down from there.


[3:2] 1 tn Heb “You only have I known.” The Hebrew verb יָדַע (yada’) is used here in its covenantal sense of “recognize in a special way.”
[9:2] 2 tn Heb “into Sheol” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV), that is, the land of the dead localized in Hebrew thought in the earth’s core or the grave. Cf. KJV “hell”; NCV, NLT “the place of the dead”; NIV “the depths of the grave.”