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Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444
The verse could be taken as addressed to the whole of Israel, not citing Judah and Ephraim separately, but as though addressing a unit comprising every tribe, since every tribe of Israel was led out of the land of Egypt.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Family, including all the posterity of Jacob. (Worthington) He afterwards addresses the ten tribes in particular. (St. Jerome) (Calmet)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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