Commentaire sur Amos 3:9

Announce—You Philistines and Egyptians, announce this and say in your palaces that they gather on the mountains of Samaria, to see from atop the mountains into the midst of the city, their evil way.

Make it heard in the palaces.... Now the prophet returns to telling us of the punishment of the kings of Israel specifically according to their since. And since he says "Gd speaks who can not prophecy" it was a call to the prophets to listen and not withhold their prophecy from fear of the people but rather make the word of Gd known in the palaces of Ashdod, in the land of the Philistines. And in the palaces of Egypt meaning tell the leadersa nd kings who dwell in palaces to gather against the Mountain of Shomron to destroy it. This refers to the mountains of Shomron and those around it. Meaning that Gd gave them permission to enter the land and wreak judgement against them. And to see great upheavals in it, referring to the upheavals of the enemeis that come against it and this is the inhabitants of Shomron who would fight and steal from their enemies. And when the pasuk says "they are incapable of doing right" it means that the inhabitants of Shomron were filled with violeance and lawlessness and didn't act according to the straight and narrow and rather filled their palaces with violence and lawlessness. This is what most commentaries explain these pesukim as. But I have a different explanation because the destruction of the 10 tribes did not orccur through Egypt and Ashdod, but rather through the king of Assyria

And therefore I will explain these pesukim in one of two ways. The first way is that this doesn't speak of the enemies coming rather that it will be heard in the palaces of Ashdod that if they are in bands of theives and rebels and the palaces of Egypt that are filled with idols and adultery. It will be said to them to gather on Mt Shomron to see their deeds and their idols and they will without a doubt see the great upheavals in it from these sins and lying, murdering, stealing, adultry and they will see that they are also involved in these as it says "the land is filled with violence" (10) and the inhabitants of Shomron will know that the upheavals have only come as a result of them committing violence and lawlessness in their palaces and the sinners in Ashdod and Egypt will be shocked from the violence in Shomron that all the bad that occured to them and it will be like the pasuk in Jeremiah (2:10) "Just cross over to the isles of the Kittim and look, Send to Kedar and observe carefully; See if aught like this has ever happened:" This is the first explanation for these pesukim. THe second one is...Ashdod is mentioned because the word Ashdod has the word "shod" in it and Egypt because Mitzrayim has the word "tzara" and "metzor" the preophet says let it be heard in their palaces that the Israelites will hear about the "shod" destruction coming to them and the times of "tzara" trouble. And it says about these enemies that htye will gather on Har Shomron to see the upheavals and then they will know that the inhabitantso f Shomron are deserving of these and that Hasehm has decreed this measure for measure on the palaces of Shomron because they were involved in "shod" they will be punished with "shod"