Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
You only have I known—that is, acknowledged as My people, and treated with peculiar favor (Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 4:20). Compare the use of "know," Psalms 1:6; Psalms 144:3; John 10:14; II Timothy 2:19.
therefore I will punish—the greater the privileges, the heavier the punishment for the abuse of them; for to the other offenses there is added, in this case, ingratitude. When God's people do not glorify Him, He glorifies Himself by punishing them.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Amos 3:2:
Isaiah 1:4
Isaiah 5:7
Hosea 13:5
Amos 3:1
Amos 3:3-6
Nahum 1:7
1 Peter 4:17
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