Amos 2:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will send a fire: see Amos 1:4. Moab; some think, but I know not on what ground, that there was a city of this name, and meant here, but on better reason we conclude it to be the whole country, or by a metonymy the people, who were the posterity of Lot by his elder daughter. It shall devour the palaces: see Amos 1:4. Kerioth; a strong and principal city of this country; or the cities, so the word will bear, and then the threat is against all their cities. Moab, the Moabites, all sorts and ranks of them, shall die, be destroyed, and perish utterly, with tumult; such as soldiers in fight or assaults make, when they carry all by force, bearing down all opposition, and slaying all opposers, with that rigour which in such cases is very usual. With shouting; as conquerors shout, to the end they may dishearten the enemy, and animate their fellow soldiers. With the sound of the trumpet: this added partly to explain, and partly to confirm, what the prophet had foretold.